Chapter 48: Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to conspicuous construction

Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier...

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description Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier forms of housebuilding and migration in colonial African contexts that let to various forms of self-help housing and the appropriation of colonial urban planning and state housing. Extending on these insights, conspicuous house constructions by regional elites and, increasingly, by the so-called emergent African middle classes, are discussed. A third section describes transnational migrants and their homemaking practices. Finally, it is argued that these three phenomena - self-help housing, elite/middle-class housing, and transnational home constructions - are not separate phenomena but have to be understood within the complex webs of kin relations in which they are embedded.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1131822023-09-01T13:51:06Z Chapter 48: Migrant homemaking in Sub-Saharan Africa: from self-help housing to conspicuous construction Pauli, Julia Housebuilding; Migration (rural-urban & transnational); Social class; Kinship; Southern Africa; West Africa JFFN Massive displacements, forced labor migration, and large-scale resettlements ordered by colonial states, but also internal and transnational migration, have stimulated specific forms of homemaking in urban and rural regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter first briefly scrutinizes earlier forms of housebuilding and migration in colonial African contexts that let to various forms of self-help housing and the appropriation of colonial urban planning and state housing. Extending on these insights, conspicuous house constructions by regional elites and, increasingly, by the so-called emergent African middle classes, are discussed. A third section describes transnational migrants and their homemaking practices. Finally, it is argued that these three phenomena - self-help housing, elite/middle-class housing, and transnational home constructions - are not separate phenomena but have to be understood within the complex webs of kin relations in which they are embedded. Published 2023-09-01T13:51:02Z 2023-09-01T13:51:02Z 2023-06-20 chapter 9781800882775 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/113182 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-on-home-and-migration-9781800882768.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800882775/book-part-9781800882775-62.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781800882775.00062 10.4337/9781800882775.00062 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781800882775 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access
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