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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786143803321

Autore

Youngstedt Scott M

Titolo

Surviving with dignity [[electronic resource] ] : Hausa communities of Niamey, Niger / / Scott M. Youngstedt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2013

ISBN

1-283-97947-0

0-7391-7351-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

305.8937

Soggetti

Hausa (African people) - Niger - Niamey - Social conditions

Hausa (African people) - Niger - Niamey - Economic conditions

Rural-urban migration - Niger

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SURVIVING WITH DIGNITY; Contents; List of Photos; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction - Making Sense of the World; Chapter 2: Niamey Yesterday and Today; Chapter 3: Niamey and the Global Hausa Diaspora; Chapter 4: Striving for Survival and Meaning in Hausa Communities of Niamey; Chapter 5: Multiple Articulations of Modernity; Chapter 6: Growing Up Male in Niamey; Conclusion: Uncertain Futures; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Surviving with Dignity focuses on the lived experience of two generations of migrant Hausa men in Niamey, Niger's capital city, set in a larger social matrix of national and global transformations. Their extraordinary ability to maintain their dignity despite their daily struggles to eke out a living in the face of structural violence and unrelenting hardship reveals a tremendously powerful will and capacity to keep going.