Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of figures
Notes on Language and Transliteration

Prologue: "Are You Disappointed?"

Chapter 1. Introduction: Migration, Insecurity, and Belonging
Chapter 2. Conquering the Fouta Djallon: Historiographies of Insecurity
Chapter 3. States of Migration: Living the Politics of Mobility
Chapter 4. "Money is the Key to the World": Evading Uselessness and Seeking Personhood Abroad and at Home
Chapter 5. "They Have Knowledge, But They Have No Manners": Global Connections and Local Difference among Fouta Djallon Muslims
Chapter 6. The Promise of Unity

Conclusions, Moving On, and Going Home

Glossary
Index

About the Author

Susanna Fioratta is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College.

Reviews

"Global Nomads is a deeply engaging and innovative multi-sited ethnography of migration as both a practice and a narrative that weaves together many aspects of everyday life, including politics, religious practice, and money. The first book-length ethnographic account of contemporary life amongst the Pular-speaking Fulbe-Fouta of Guinea, Global Nomads is also a critically needed account of Guinea's democratic transition. It is a significant contribution to scholarship on Africa."--Clovis Bergère, University of Pennsylvania "Based on several years of living with Fulbe in Guinea and in Dakar, this ethnography elaborates on a common paradox about African migration. Migrants claim that they would rather be home, and assert that they have only left because they need to make money--for themselves, and for their families back home--but often aren't making any in the place they've migrated to. So why don't they go home? The answer has to do with personhood--with pride, with feeling as if one has made the effort. In Global Nomads, Fulbe migrants and how migration shapes Fulbe life come alive on the page."--Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington