Shi‘i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal. Mara A. Leichtman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 320 pp.

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Refugees
  • Internal displacement
  • High-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration
  • Trafficking

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Cultural identity and belonging
  • Media representations of migration
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities
  • Migrants and religion
  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Descendants of migrants
  • Marriage and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Transversal consequences

  • Migrant incorporation / integration

• Legal-political consequences

  • Nationhood and nationalism
  • Extremism and migration
  • Migrants in education

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions
  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History

• Subject Areas

  • Studies of Religion

Methods

• Other

  • Agent-based modeling

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • Continental
  • National

• UN Countries

  • France
  • Lebanon
  • Senegal
  • United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland