Bruce Whitehouse is Frank Hook Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is spending the 2011-2012 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar affiliated with the Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines in Bamako, Mali. His book Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging was published this month.