Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City: A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos (Hardcover)

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Focusing on migration within the global south, Bennett Eason Cross uses the example of the Malian trade diaspora in Lagos to argue that aspects of the original model of the transmigrant were based on labor migrations from global south to global north that are not representative of their south-to-south counterparts. In Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City: A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos, Nigeria, Cross notes that the cultural and racial differences between migrant communities and their host societies in Europe and the U.S. are often narrower, or even nonexistent, in south-to-south migrations, which shapes different outcomes. As this multi-site case study reveals, however, these differences in outcome can seem counterintuitive, as immigrants in the north typically develop loyalties to both origin and host nations, whereas, among the Malians in Lagos, affinity for the host nation was virtually nonexistent, despite a common regional culture. He complicates the

standard bilateral struggle for belonging between host and origin societies by examining the role of Islam, both as a parallel transnational movement and as a competing localized form. This book analyzes the deep historical structure of each society to explain the Malians' failure to develop the multiple national identities observed in other diasporas.

About the Author


Bennett Eason Cross, a former Fulbright-Hays Fellow, holds a doctorate in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an independent scholar.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781793615022
ISBN-10: 1793615020
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: August 15th, 2022
Pages: 228
Language: English