We do not have borders : greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya /
Keren Weitzberg.
- Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource
- New African histories .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Nomadic expansion, cosmopolitan sensibilities, and new imperial frontiers -- Nomadic and diasporic life under empire -- Development, nationalism, and new topographies of power -- The creation of homeland and the domestication of the nation-state -- The criminalization of Somali networks and the silencing of alternative nationalisms -- The globalization of diaspora, the ambivalence of statelessness, and the quest for minority rights -- From a greater Somalia to a global Somalia.
Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.