Cosmopolitan Refugees

Cosmopolitan RefugeesExploring 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

Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy

Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Ireland

and social norms

and tracing the origins of that paradigm

merging attributes of town and country to create an idyllic domestic retreat just a short train ride away from the busy city center

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The chapter looks ahead towards a typology of independent smallholders and examines future trends in this area

Explores early Palestinian Judaic traditions

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