Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
PART I: INTRODUCTIONS
Introduction: Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier
Interlude: Being and Becoming Mobile Yusuf Hassan
PART II: URBANITY
Chapter 1. The Somali Factor in Urban Kenya: A History Hannah Whittaker
Chapter 2. The Port and the Island: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Identity Constructions among Somali Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg Nereida Ripero-Muñiz
Chapter 3. Being Oromo in Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’: Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore
PART III: ECONOMIC NETWORKS
Chapter 4. Demanding and Commanding Goods: The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the ‘Lives’ of Its Commodities Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott
Chapter 5. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje
Chapter 6. Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya Holly A. Ritchie
Chapter 7. Reinventing Retail: ‘Somali’ Shopping Centres in Kenya Tabea Scharrer
PART IV: THE POLITICS OF SOMALI MOBILITY
Chapter 8. Perpetually in Transit: Somalian Refugees in a Context of Increasing Hostility Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell
Chapter 9. Framing the Swoop: A Comparative Analysis of Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and Secular Print Media in Kenya Joseph Wandera and Halkano Abdi Wario
Chapter 10. Beyond Eastleigh: A New Little Mogadishu in Uganda? Gianluca Iazzolino
Afterword Günther Schlee
Glossary Index