Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes

Evidence from Lusaka and Kampala

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2147193
AutoresOliver Bakewell (0000-0002-0904-7134, University of Oxford, autor correspondente), Naluwembe Binaisa (0000-0003-4650-9972, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science)
Ano2016
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas280-300
Data de publicação2016-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1105994
OpenAlexW2201670724
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas35

The transnational movements of Africans within the continent are seldom conceptualised as leading to diasporic identifications and relationships. In stark contrast, the migration of Africans beyond the continent, which occurs on a smaller scale, is routinely associated with diaspora formation. Drawing on fieldwork with migrants from Anglophone and Francophone West Africa and the Horn of Africa living in Lusaka and Kampala, this paper explores whether their movements gives rise to the formation of diasporic connections that sustain and reproduce identifications with the place and people of origin, over distance and through generations. The analysis illustrates how different layers of 'origin' and 'destination' factors interact to reinforce or undermine diasporic identifications in Africa's urban landscapes. The homeland where mobility is embedded in socio-economic relations that embrace transnational linkages may perpetuate connections. The conditions of urban life that impose pressures to remain outsiders may perpetuate exclusion and hinder integration

Diaspora · Ethnology · French horn · Geography · Homeland · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Transnationalism · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration