The human cost of African migrations / [edited by] Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin.

Afolabi, Niyi

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

African studies (Routledge (Firm))

African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care.

Medical personnel.

Migration, Internal.

Emigration and immigration.

Africa--Emigration and immigration.

Africa.

Migration, Internal--Africa.

Medical personnel--Africa.

Medical care--Africa.

Physical Description:

xx, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2007]

Summary:

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical, developmental, and cultural.

Contents:

Introduction: migration fantasies, nightmarish realities / Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi

Migrations and health issues

Migration and health in Africa and the African diaspora / Kathryn H. Jacobsen

Discourses on health risks and anti-racial diversity in the media coverage of the non-ebola panic / Charles T. Adeyanju

"Predatory globalization?" : the World Trade Organization, general agreement on trade in services, and migration of African health professionals to the West / Obijiofor Aginam

Searching the world : following three graduating classes of a Nigerian medical school / Ike Anya, Chikwe Ihekweazu and Enyi Anosike

A group of twenty nurses and the Pan African struggle for liberation / Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Human trafficking and exploitation

Trafficking of young women and girls : a case of "au pair" and domestic laborers in Tanzania / Elinami Veraeli Swai

Emerging issues in the trafficking of African women for prostitution / Victor Nnamdi Opara

Trafficking contracts : myth or reality? : a re-examination of consent in human trafficking / Victor Nnamdi Opara

Migration and education

School migration : a major concern in historically disadvantaged schools in South Africa / Myra Maboya

Pushing and pulling : Western education's impact on women's subjugation in Ghana / Jamaine Abidogun

Refugees, displacement, and re-settlement

Peoples without homes : displacement and the security situation in Africa / Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

Determinants of Ethiopian refugee flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970-2000 / Solomon Addis Getahun

Conclusion : "unknown immigrant" : the persistence of migration blues / Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

0415958377

9780415958370

OCLC:

84903288