Sarah Kunz

‘Don’t call me mzungu’: negotiating migration categories and privilege in Nairobi

This paper explores how privileged migrants in Nairobi, Kenya responded to the Kiswahili term ‘mzungu’, in relation to how Kenyan interlocutors understood and used the term. The paper draws on five months of ethnographic research conducted in 2016. Mzungu carries intertwined conn...