Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Art Hansen

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: Through an Urban Borehole
Chapter 2. Empowered Victims
Chapter 3. Bongoland Adventures
Chapter 4. Suspicious Lives
Chapter 5. Undercover Urbanites
Chapter 6. Satan’s City
Chapter 7. Conclusion: A Second Refugee Generation

Epilogue: The Forgotten People

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Marc Sommers is an international consultant and Research Fellow at Boston University's African Studies Center. He has explored the impact of war and urbanization on children and youth in Africa as well as Colombia, El Salvador and Kosovo. Dr. Sommers has published numerous articles and reports for popular and scholarly audiences and presented on Capital Hill, at the United Nations and on radio programs. His photographs have been exhibited in the U.S., Europe and East Africa. In 1993, Dr. Sommers received the annual Award for the Outstanding Paper on Refugee Issues from the American Anthropological Association's Committee on Refugees and Immigrants.

Reviews

"...skillfully weaves the tapestry of fear and resourcefulness, religion and politics, survival and loss, that make up the lives of Burundi refugees in urban Tanzania." - Peter Uvin (author of the 1999 Henskovits Award Winner "Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda") "[a] finely-crafted ethnography... highly recommended." - Paul Richards (author of "Fighting for the Rain Forest")