The Mouride Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Urbanism

Abstract

Global flows, multiple identities and cross-border activities represented by transnational migrant communities test prior assumptions critically regarding the nation-state functioning as a container of social, economic and political processes (Grille et al. 2000, Wimmer and Glick Schiller 2014: 576-610, Pries 2008). Mouride migrants from Senegal belong to diasporic communities that operate within an in-between space by commuting between their land of origin and the host country changing their whereabouts seasonally. They

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