Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford
Browse All Books
Cosmopolitan Refugees: Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

View Table of Contents


Series
Volume 46

Forced Migration

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Cosmopolitan Refugees

Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

Nereida Ripero-Muñiz

167 pages, 42 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-818-8 $120.00/£89.00 / Hb / Published (January 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80073-819-5 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800738188


View CartYour country: - edit Request a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“This is a fine book that offers fascinating comparative material from two well-chosen locations to discuss the lives and identity of Somali women migrants in Kenya and South Africa. It is theoretically astute and contains much important ethnographic material. I can see it becoming a key reference for the study of Somali diaspora in particular, and diaspora and identity in general.” • Neil Carrier, University of Bristol

Description

Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg:  two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South. The book is based on and includes ethnographic observations in Nairobi and Johannesburg, first-person accounts of migration journeys across the African continent and women’s reflections on what it means to be a Somali woman today.

Nereida Ripero-Muñiz is a lecturer in the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has been working with the Somali diaspora in the African continent for the last ten years, having conducted and collaborated different research projects and publications on the topic.

Subject: Refugee and Migration StudiesAnthropology (General)Gender Studies and Sexuality
Area: Africa


Contents

Download ToC (PDF)

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Cosmopolitan Refugees Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $120.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.