Table of Contents
Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Joël Noret Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics Hannah Hoechner
Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa Fawzia Mazanderani
Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger Gabriella Körling
Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala Laura Camfield and William Monteith
Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze
Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space Benjamin Rubbers
Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border Maxim Bolt
Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon Ben Page
Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa Joël Noret
Appendix I: Sample characteristics Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility
Index