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Author Whitehouse, Bruce, 1971-

Title Migrants and strangers in an African city [electronic resource] : exile, dignity, belonging / Bruce Whitehouse.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 274 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: exile knows no dignity -- The Avenue of Sergeant Malamine -- Enterprising strangers -- Among the unbelievers -- The stranger's code -- Transnational kinship -- Children of exile -- Conclusion: the anchoring of identities -- Epilogue: displaced dreams.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject West Africans -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Social conditions.
Transnationalism -- Social aspects.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Commerce.
Congo (Brazzaville) -- Religion.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253000811 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253000828 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253000750 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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