Serah Shani is an assistant professor of anthropology at Westmont College. Her research interests lie broadly in exploring the social life of cities, and more particularly the informal and innovative strategies by which different ethnic and racial urban residents claim their rights to the city. Her current research looks at urban migration, transnational movements, identities and the sociocultural economic adaptation for recent African immigrants to the United States. Dr. Shani graduated from Columbia University and did her fieldwork among African immigrants in New York City. Her research has been published in Harvard Educational Review Journal and in a fourth coming book in 2018 with Lexington Books. Her research in Africa seeks to examine how market economies influence parenting strategies among marginalized and indigenous groups and how these strategies inform children’s future economic trajectories. Dr. Shani is also conducting research on elite formation among indigenous groups in East Africa.
Gaibazzi, Paolo. 2015. Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence […]
