Forging African Communities

Oliver Bakewell is Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK and former Director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford. Loren Landau is South African Research Chair in Mobility and the Politics of Diversity at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

“Forging African Communities, an important new volume edited by Oliver Bakewell and Loren Landau, unsettles these models and challenges their application to migrant flows in Africa and beyond. This volume showcases work by an interdisciplinary array of scholars and practitioners, including many based at African universities.” (Bruce Whitehouse, Migration and Society, Vol. 1, 2018)​

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Forging a Study of Mobility, Integration and Belonging in Africa; Loren B Landau and Oliver Bakewell.- Part 1.- Chapter 2: “We are like a bat. We are neither birds nor animals”: Where the formal and informal collide as Burundian refugees in Tanzania struggle for belonging ; Lucy Hovil.- Chapter 3: Integration from the beach: insights from the experiences of artisanal fishing immigrants in Pointe-Noire City, Congo-Brazzaville; Gabriel Tati.- Chapter 4: The Moroccan moment and communities of itinerants: mobility and belonging in the transnational trajectories of sub-Saharan migrants; Johara Berriane.- Chapter 5: Negotiating a space of belonging: a case study from the Zambia-Angolan borderlands; Oliver Bakewell.- Part 2.- Chapter 6: Tactical Creolisation and the Production of Belonging in Migrant Pentecostal Churches in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Peter Kankonde Bukasa.- Chapter 7: Catechism, Commerce and Categories: Nigerian Male Migrant Traders in Harare; Pedzisayi Leslie Mangezvo.- Chapter 8: Social capital, spatial conquests and migrants’ social mixity: Nigerians and Chinese in Lubumbashi, DRC; Germain Ngoie Tshibambe.- Chapter 9: ‘We are all Ugandans’: In search of belonging in Kampala’s urban space; Naluwembe Binaisa.- Part 3.- Chapter 10: “The Friends of our Friends are our Friends”: Determinants of Hosts’ Contact with International Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Steven Gordon.- Chapter 11: Pentecostalism and a global community of sentiment: the cases of Nigerian and Congolese pastors in Diaspora; Rafael Cazarin.- Chapter 12: Shallow Solidarities: Space and Socialities of Accommodation and Exclusion in Nairobi and Johannesburg; Loren B Landau and Iriann Freemantle.-