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

• Váldodahkki: Pauli, Julia (auth)
• Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
• Giella: eaŋgalasgiella
• Almmustuhtton: Cheltenham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing 2023
• Fáttát: JFFN; Housebuilding; Migration (rural-urban & transnational); Social class; Kinship; Southern Africa; West Africa
• Liŋkkat: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...