FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2074451533> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2074451533 endingPage "170" @default.
• W2074451533 startingPage "169" @default.
• W2074451533 abstract "The book draws on Kane's research on Senegalese immigrants in New York conducted over the past decade. The claim that ‘the homeland is the arena’ is the translation of a Wolof saying used by these immigrants to emphasize that, despite their difficult circumstances, what matters most is perception of their social status in Senegal itself. Kane implicitly problematizes this claim by taking ‘a broad approach to transnationalism to describe the practices of Senegalese immigrants who are simultaneously seeking to integrate American society and making a major socioeconomic and political impact on their homeland’ (p. 8). Kane focuses on the role of religion as this is a ‘neglected aspect’ (p. 8) in research on such processes in the US although, surprisingly, nowhere does he cite JoAnn D'Alisera's (2004) book An Imagined Geography, a study of Sierra Leonean Muslims in Washington, DC that clearly resonates with his work. Still, the book starts promisingly in its ‘Prologue’, really an introductory chapter that sets the theoretical and geographical scene: ‘transnationalism’ is presented as a complex and contested concept, and the contours of Islam in the US are discussed well. Kane is also honest about his methods and their limitations, not least the bias that comes from working on immigrants who involve themselves in associational and community life, rather than those who choose not to do so. From there on, however, he gets bogged down at times. Chapter 1, on Sufism in Senegal, is dense with detail familiar to scholars of the country but some of it unnecessary here. The next three chapters form a section on ‘Integrating American Society’. Chapter 2 gives an engaging account of the changing geographies of settlement, economic activity, and worship among the Senegalese community in New York, considering how social structures and behaviours from the homeland are or are not reproduced – although this is again quite descriptive and opportunities to analyse ‘transnationalism’ in this context are missed. Similarly, chapters 3 and 4 contain much description of associations in which Senegalese immigrants are involved but, by taking these associations as the locus of study rather than immigrants themselves, Kane does not bring out the messiness of associational life (which he acknowledges) as strongly as he might. Also unhelpful, arguably, is too much categorization: types of association (Sufi, secular, national, hometown); types of migrant and marabout; and whether the immigrants live in ‘enclaves’ or not. While recognizing to some extent the problems these categories have in capturing more dynamic and overlapping realities, Kane does not fully address this fluidity, partly because at this stage in the book the reader has yet to see the situation from the ground. There is little sense of how the immigrants themselves, as real people rather than as associational actors, experience their own situations, with few direct quotes or life histories appearing until later." @default.
• W2074451533 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W2074451533 creator A5082332335 @default.
• W2074451533 date "2012-12-03" @default.
• W2074451533 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W2074451533 title "The Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, transnationalism, and the integration of Senegalese immigrants in America" @default.
• W2074451533 doi "https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/ads068" @default.
• W2074451533 hasPublicationYear "2012" @default.
• W2074451533 type Work @default.
• W2074451533 sameAs 2074451533 @default.
• W2074451533 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2074451533 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W2074451533 hasAuthorship W2074451533A5082332335 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C205649164 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C2776614217 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C2778880830 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C4445939 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C70036468 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C107993555 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C144024400 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C166957645 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C17744445 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C199539241 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C205649164 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C2776614217 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C2778880830 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C4445939 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C70036468 @default.
• W2074451533 hasConceptScore W2074451533C94625758 @default.
• W2074451533 hasIssue "446" @default.
• W2074451533 hasLocation W20744515331 @default.
• W2074451533 hasOpenAccess W2074451533 @default.
• W2074451533 hasPrimaryLocation W20744515331 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2039004028 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2053816888 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2127504073 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2529628283 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2588230191 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2624536752 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W4246738283 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W4285729408 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W2151284618 @default.
• W2074451533 hasRelatedWork W87035626 @default.
• W2074451533 hasVolume "112" @default.
• W2074451533 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2074451533 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2074451533 magId "2074451533" @default.
• W2074451533 workType "article" @default.