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The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana's Transnational Zongo Community.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana's Transnational Zongo Community./
Author:	Brown, Christopher M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27692263
ISBN:	9781392776599

The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana's Transnational Zongo Community.
Brown, Christopher M.

The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana's Transnational Zongo Community. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 253 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This anthropological study examines how cultural principles of strangerhood shape perceptions of rights, identity and belonging among the Ghanaian Zongo community, a multi-ethnic population known colloquially as "strangers" throughout West Africa. The project uses ethnographic methods and grounded theory analysis to examine the multilayered social processes through which Zongo migrants in Ghana and the United States perceive, enact and experience their relationships to the institutions, structures and authorities that shape their lives. Although the concept of strangerhood is commonly applied to intra-African migration, it is rarely used to understand the position of migrants in other global settings. Entailing perceptions of difference, legitimacy and belonging that stand in marked contrast to conventional understandings of citizenship, it is nevertheless an alternative basis for claims to rights, recognition and resources. Tracing the ways in which discrepant ideas, practices, values and institutions intersect and shape one another, I argue that although the logic of strangerhood is intertwined with that of citizenship, it nonetheless remains a distinctive, overarching framework through which Zongo migrants negotiate the social and political tensions associated with transnational migration. In this regard, it is a useful concept for understanding emergent forms of subjectivity in an increasingly globalized world.

ISBN: 9781392776599Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.
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Ghana

The Cultural Logic of Strangerhood: Subjectivity, Migration and Belonging among Ghana's Transnational Zongo Community.
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