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ABDOULAYE KANE
University of Florida
Department of Anthropology &
Center for African Studies
Office: Grinter Hall, 439
PO Box 117 305
Gainesville, FL 32611-7305
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 352 392 6788
Fax: 352 392 2435
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
August 2003- date: Assistant professor: Department of Anthropology and Center for African
Studies. University of Florida
2002-2003: Assistant professor: University Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal.
EXPERTISE:
Theoretical Fields: Cultural Anthropology, Informal Finance, Transnational Migrations,
Diaspora Studies.
Area Studies: Africa, Europe and the United States.
Dissertation: Les caméléons de la finance populaire au Sénégal et dans la Diaspora: Dynamique
des tontines et des caisses villageoises entre Thilogne, Dakar et la France [“The Chameleons of
Popular Finance in Senegal and in the Senegalese Diaspora: Dynamics of Tontines and Village
Funds between Thilogne, Dakar, and France]
EDUCATION
PhD: Sociology, University of Amsterdam, 2001
MA: Sociology, University of Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1995
BA: Sociology, University Gaston Berger, St-Louis, Senegal, 1993
DEUG (Associate’s Degree): Political Science, University of Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis,
Sénégal, 1995 (Concurrent with M.A in Sociology)
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Kane, A.
2010 Tontines, caisses de solidarité et banquiers ambulants. Univers des pratiques financières
informelles en Afrique et en milieu immigré africain en France, [Tontines, Solidarity Funds, and
Ambulatory Bankers: The Universe of Informal Financial Practices in Africa and among African
Immigrants in France,] Paris: l’Harmattan
Book Manuscripts
Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S. (Eds.).
Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa,
Indiana University Press, Forthcoming
Kane, A. & Leedy Todd,
African Migrations Today: Patterns and Perspectives, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming.
Keeping Home in Mind: Transnational Social Spaces and Culture of Migration among the
Haalpulaar of the Senegal River Valley, Completed,
Refereed articles
2010 “Charity and Self-Help. Migrants’ Social Networks and Health Care in the Homeland.”
Anthropology Today, Vol. 26, N0 $, August 2010, pp. 8-12.
2005 “Les diasporas africaines et la mondialisation,” In Horizons Maghrébins, no 53/2005,
Presses Universitaires du Mirail, pp. 54-61
2001 “Diasporas villageoise et développement local en Afrique: le cas de Thilogne Association
Développement,” [Village Diaspora and Local Development in Africa: A Case Study of Thilogne
Association Développement] In Hommes et Migrations, no 1229, pp. 96-107
Non Refereed articles
2001 “La confiance au Cœur des arrangements financiers populaires au Sénégal,” [Trust
Relations in the Popular Financial Arrangements], In Revue Sénégalaise de Sociologie, No 4-5,
pp. 213-262
Edited Volumes
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2008 “Senegalese Sufi Orders in the Transnational Space: Moving Religious Activities from
Home to Host Countries and Creating Diasporic Identities,” In Migrations and Creative
Expressions in Africa and the African Diasporas, Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi, & Aderonke
Adesanya ( eds), Carolina Academic Press, 2008, pp. 471-481
2007 “Les pèlerins sénégalais au Maroc: la sociability autour de la Tijaniyya” [The Senegalese
pilgrims in Morocco: Sociability around the Tijaniyya Sufi Order,] In Les nouveaux urbains dans
l’espace Sahara-Sahel: Un cosmopolitisme par le bas, Laurence Marfaing Elisabeth Boessen
(eds.), Berlin, Paris: Editions Karthala & ZMO, pp. 187- 208
2006 “Tontines and Village Cash Boxes along the Thilogne-Dakar-Paris Emigration Route” In
Mutualist Microfinance: Informal Saving Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Abram
de Swaan & Marcel van der Linden (eds.), Amsterdam: Aksant, pp. 97-120
2002 “Senegal’s Village Diaspora and the People Left Behind” In The Transnational Family:
New European Frontiers and Global Networks, Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela, (eds.),
London: Berg Publishers, pp. 245-263
2001 “Financial Arrangements across Borders: Women’s Predominant Participation in Popular
Finance, from Thilogne and Dakar to Paris; A Senegalese Case Study” In Women and Credit,
Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future, Beverly Lemire (eds.), London: Berg Publishers,
pp. 295-317
“Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients Between Home and Host
Countries” in Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S. (eds.) Transnational Medicine, Mobile
Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa, Indiana University Press,
Forthcoming
Dilger, H., Kane, A., and Langwick, S.
“Introduction,” In Dilger, Hansjoerg, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey Langwick (eds.)
Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In and Beyond
Africa, Indiana University Press, Forthcoming
“Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States: Remittances and
Social Change in the Senegal River Valley,” In Marcel Van Linden (eds.) Labour History
beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations, Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsanstalt,
Forthcoming
“Les relations entre les vieilles et les nouvelles diasporas africaines aux Etats-Unis. Book chapter
submitted to the CODESRIA’s multinational working group for its research program on the
African Diaspora and Africa, Forthcoming
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Submitted articles and book chapters
“Introduction to African Migration Today,” in Kane, A. & Leedy Todd, African Migrations
Today: Patterns and Perspectives, Proceedings of the 2008 Carter Conference on Migration in
and out of Africa: Old Patterns and new Perspectives. Indiana University Press, In preparation
for re-submission
“The Experience of Haalpulaar Migrants in Three US Cities: The Building of Transnational
Communities in New York, Cincinnati and Memphis,” To be resubmitted to American
Ethnologist in July
“Les
journées culturelles de Thilogne: Retour des migrants transnationaux à leurs sources,” [The
Thilogne Festival: the return of transnational Haal Pulaar Migrants] Article submitted to
L’Homme
“Transnational Practices of Haalpulaar migrants: Communication, Remittances and Social
Change,” Submitted to the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
“Analyse des problèmes des enfants de migrants Haalpulaar au Sénégal et en France: La
centralité de la présence ou de l’absence des parents,” Submitted to Revue des Africanistes,
Special Issue: Enfants et Migration
Work in Progress
“Home Connections: The Practice of Transnationalism and its evolution since the 1970 among
the Haalpulaar migrants in France,” In preparation
“The Building of a Religious Community in Memphis: Challenging Religious traditions in the
Diaspora,” In preparation
“Les
Marabouts transnationaux et les diasporas Haal Pulaar en Europe et aux Etats-Unis” [The
Transnational Religious Leaders and the Haalpulaar Migrants in Europe and in the United
States,] In preparation
INVITED AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
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2010 “The Experience of Haalpulaar Migrants in Three US Cities: The Building of
Transnational Communities in New York, Cincinnati and Memphis,” Workshop on Global
History and Sociology of Work: Perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia, IGK Work and
Human Life Cycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Mai, 6-7, 2010
2009 “Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States:
Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley” ITH Conference, Linz, Austria,
September 2009
2009 “Transnational Connections and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley,” Institut
d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) et Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009
2009 “The building of a Religious Identity in Mantes-La-Jolie: The annual Daha of Tijaniyya
Followers in France” IISMM et EHESS guest Seminars, University of Paris VI, May 2009
2009 “Rotating Saving and Credit Associations among Haalpulaar Immigrants in France,”
IISMM and EHESS, Round Table on Financial Networks in West African Muslim Communities
in France, University of Paris 6, June 2009
2008 “Migration, Money Transfer, and Development of Sending Countries,” Keynote Address
at the seminar on Migration and Money Transfer and the Development of Africa, Co-sponsored
by the Organization for International Migration (OIM) and TrustAfrica, Dakar, March, 2008
2006 “Co-développement et contrôle des flux migratoires: les illusions européennes contre
l’imaginaire des jeunes africains,” Paper presented at the International Cooperation Salon in
Tenerife, Canary Islands, June 25-29, 2006
2005 “Senegalese Pilgrims in Morocco: Sociability around the Tijaniyya Sufi Order.” Paper
presented at a Conference on Entre Villes et Désert. Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin,
December 9-11, 2005.
2002 “Bad but Necessary: Practices and Perceptions of Corruption among the Senegalese
Migrants in France,” Presentation at a Jubilee Conference on ‘Corruption’, Amsterdam School
for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, December 9-11
INVITED AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
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2007 “African Conflicts, Border Crossings, and the Idea of Co-Development,” Paper presented
at the Institute for African Development (IAD) weekly Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca,
February 22
2006 “Chain Migration among the Haalpulaar Community in New York,” Paper presented at
the Symposium on Africans in New York, co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies and
the Museum for African Art, Columbia University, April 21
2005 “Senegalese Sufi Migrants and Global Islam,” Paper presented at the Conference on
Democracy and Global Islam, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, April 22
2004 “Islam Here and There: Transnational ‘Marabouts’ and the Experience of Haalpulaar
Migrants in France,” Paper presented at a Conference on East and West: the Experience of Islam
in an Expanding Europe, Center for European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March
25-27
PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND ANNUAL MEETINGS
INTERNATIONAL
2006 “Medina Gounass in Mantes-La-Jolie: Translocal Islamic Sufi Practices and the
Expression of Haalpulaar Identity in France,” Paper presented at the workshop on Presence
Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, UF’s Paris Research Center and Center for
African Studies, Paris, April 10-11
2004 “Immigration Law and Senegalese Women in France: Changing Perceptions of Home
and Host countries,” Paper presented at a Conference on Gendered Borders, Vrij Universiteit,
Amsterdam, September 28-30
1999 “La prédominance de la participation des femmes dans les arrangements financiers
populaires au Sénégal,” Presentation at a Conference on Women and Credit, University of New
Brunswick, Canada, September 15-18
1998 “La transnationalité des identités locales. Le cas des émigrés sénégalais en France.” [The
Transnationality of Local Identities: the Case of Senegalese Migrants in France,] Paper presented
at a Symposium. Identification and (Dé)identification: L’état et les ethnies, Institut Néerlandais,
October 16
1998 “Les mécanismes de solidarité chez les immigrés sénégalais en France ou de la sécurité
sociale par le bas,” [Solidarity Mechanisms among Senegalese Migrants in France : Social
Security from below,] Paper presented at the Centre d'Etudes des Solidarités (CESOL),
University Paris VIII, Mai 26-28
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NATIONAL
2006 “Senegalese Sufi Orders in the Transnational Space: Moving Religious Activities from
Home to Host Countries and Creating Daisporas,” Paper presented at the Conference on
Movements, Migration and Displacement in Africa, The University of Texas at Austin, March
23, 24, 25
2005 “Community Health in the Hands of the Village Diasporas: The Case of the Senegal
River Valley,” Paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington
DC, November, 17-20
2005 “The Experience of Haal Pulaar Migrants in Three American Cities,” Paper presented at
the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 30,
December 1-4
2004 “The Senegalese Diaspora in Europe and in the US: Representations of Home,” Paper
presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 11-14
LOCAL
2005 “Senegalese Sufi Orders across Borders,” Presentation at a Symposium on Islam in
Africa: Sufism and Modernity in a Globalized World, Harn Museum, February 10, (Symposium
held as a complement to the Harn Museum’s exhibition on Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban
Senegal)
2004 “Changing Perceptions of Home: the Senegalese Women in the Diaspora,” Presentation
in the Gender Conversations Brown Bag Lecture Series, Center for Women’s Studies and
Gender Research, University of Florida, October 29
2004 “Keeping Home in Mind: The Experience of Haal Pulaar Migrants in the United States,”
presentation in the Baraza Lecture Series, University of Florida, Center for African Studies,
October 15
1998 “Typology of Informal Financial Arrangements in Senegal and their Transnational
Character,” Paper presented at the Staff Colloquium of Amsterdam School for Social Science
Research, University of Amsterdam, May 6
1997 “Dynamique des tontines et des mutuelles communautaires chez les immigrés sénégalais
vivant en France,” Fieldwork Report presentation, Amsterdam School for Social Science
Research, University of Amsterdam, February 10
1996 “The Weakness of the Senegalese State and the Development of the Informal Sector,”
Presented in a seminar on State formation in Europe and Beyond, Amsterdam School, University
of Amsterdam, June 23
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Kane, A. “Local Poverty, National policies and International Aid,” Presented in a seminar on
Poverty and Poor Relief, Amsterdam School, University of Amsterdam, December 9
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2008 Migration in and out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives, Annual Gwendolen
M. Carter Conference in African Studies, February 15 and 16, 2008
2006 International workshop on Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts, Rethinking Medicine
in and Beyond Africa, University of Florida: October 12-14, (With Dilger, H. & Langwick, S.)
2006 Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, UF Paris Research
Center, April 10-11, (With Villalon, L. & Zachman, G.)
ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED PANELS
2006 Panel Organizer & Chair: “From Sojourners to Citizens: Prospect and Problems of
African Migrants in France,” Workshop on Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating
Identities, Paris, April 10-11,
2006 Panel Organizer: “Networks across Borders: Social, Economic and Religious Ties to
Africa,” Workshop on Presence Africaine: Contesting Images and Creating Identities, Paris,
April 10-11
2006 Panel Chair: “The Political Economy of African Transnationalism,” South-East
Africanists Network’s Conference on the African Experience in Europe through Cinema,”
Sponsored by the Center for African Studies and the Center for European Studies, U.F., January
28-30
2005 Panel Chair: “Soldiers in States,” At a Conference on States of Violence: the Conduct of
War in Africa, Annual Gwendolen M. Carter Conference in African Studies, sponsored by the
Center for African Studies, U.F., March 17-19
2000 Panel Chair : “Les relations entre les migrants transnationaux et leurs villages d’origine,”
Conférence de l’Association Euro-Africaine pour l’Anthropologie du Changement Social et du
Développement (APAD), St-Louis, Sénégal, January 16-19
GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Master Committees (Graduated)
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MA Laura Jervis, 2005 (Member)
MA Sarah Page, 2007 (Member)
MA Khadidja Arfi, 2008 (Member)
MA Landon Denkler, 2009 (Member)
Master Committees (Current)
MA John Hames, Chair, active
MA Jason Hatz, Chair, active
Doctoral Committees (Graduated)
PhD Maxine Downs (2006) (Member)
PhD Michelle Edwards (2007) (Member)
PhD Ermites Saint Jacques (2009) (Member)
PhD Kamal Feriali (2009) (Member)
PhD Felicia Chigozie Anonyuo (2009) (Member)
PhD Suzanne Dolwick Grieb (2009) (Member)
PhD Mantoa Rose Smouse (2010) (External Member)
Doctoral Committees (Current)
PhD Lauren Cheek, Chair, active
PhD Holly Fisher, chair, active
PhD Allison Ketter, Committee member
PhD Ryan Peseckas, Committee Member
PhD Khadidja Arfi, Committee Member
PhD Maia Bass, Committee member
PhD Timothy Nevin, External Committee Member
Ph.D Paul Codner, External Committee Member
PhD Steve Davis, External Committee Member
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Honors’ Theses,
Vivian Gornik, 2010 (Supervisor)
University Scholar Award
Joshua A Villanueva, Supervisor, active
REVIEWS FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PRESSES
American Anthropologist
Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies
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Indiana University Press
Politique Africaine
African Studies Review
Transforming Anthropology
EXTERNAL REVIEW OF THESIS
External examiner of a PhD dissertation for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa, (Title: The Development of Ethnic Minorities: A Case Study of West Africans in
South Africa,) August 23, 2005.
AWARDS FELLOWSHIPS
2008
2007
2007
2006
2006
2005
1996
Course Enhancement Grant from the Center for European Studies
2007-08 Gwendolyn M. Carter Faculty Fellow in African Studies
Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund
Course Development Grant from the Center for European Studies
CODESRIA Mutli-national working group on African Diaspora Grant
Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, UFIC, University of Florida
Nederlandse Ontwikkelingsorganisatie (NOVIB) and Humanistisch
Instituut Voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (HIVOS) (Dutch NGOs):
Grant. (Four years full tuition and salary)
1996 Amsterdam School for Social Science Research Fellowship
1997-01 Fellowship of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
(Travel, Books) 4X$2,500,
1997 Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR): Research
1997-98 Dissertation Research Grant
1993 Best Student Award, University of St-Louis, Senegal
Award for the Best Student in the Department of Sociology
1990-1995 Senegalese State Fellowship for undergraduate and graduate studies
MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS
AAA: American Anthropological Association (since 2004)
ASA: African Studies Association (since 2003)
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$3,000
$25,000
$8,500
$5,000
$7,000
$3,000
$ 10,000.
$ 12,000
WARA: West African Research Association (since 2003)
APAD: Association pour l’Anthropologie et le Développement (since 1997)
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Fulani: mother tongue
French: fluent
English: fluent
Wolof: fluent
Dutch: basic
REFERENCES:
Prof. Leonardo Villalon, University of Florida Center for African Studies 427 Grinter Hall PO
Box 115560 Gainesville, FL 32611, Tel: (352) 392-2183, (352) 392-2435 (FAX). E-mail:
[email protected].
Prof. Anita Spring, Univesity of Florida, Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall, PO BOX 117305,
Gainesville, FL32611. E-mail: [email protected].
Prof. Brenda Chalfin, University of Florida, Anthropology, 1112 Turlington Hall PO BOX
117304, Gainesville, FL 32611. E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. Peter Geschiere, Amsterdam's School for Social Science Research, Oude Hoogstraat 24,
1012 CE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
June, 2010
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