African migrations : patterns and perspectives / edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kane, Abdoulaye.

Leedy, Todd H. (Todd Holzgrefe)

ProQuest (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Migrations.

Africans.

African diaspora.

Emigration and immigration.

Africa--Emigration and immigration.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 301 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender; national, and religious ties to their former homes. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Psychological, Sociocultural, and Political Dimensions of African Migration

1 Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse 19

2 Migration as Coping with Risk and State Barriers: Malian Migrants' Conception of Being Far from Home / Isaie Dougnon Dougnon, Isaie 35

3 Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis / Donald Carter Carter, Donald 59

4 Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation / Rubin Patterson Patterson, Rubin 78

Part 2 Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion

5 Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-Exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism / Loren B. Landau Landau, Loren B. 93

6 Securing Wealth, Ordering Social Relations: Kinship, Morality, and the Configuration of Subjectivity and Belonging across the Rural-Urban Divide / Hansjörg Dilger Dilger, Hansjörg 113

7 Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa "Left Behind" in Niamey, Niger / Scott M. Youngstedt Youngstedt, Scott M. 133

8 Strangers Are Like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora / Paul Stoller Stoller, Paul 158

9 Toward a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora / Afe Adogame Adogame, Afe 173

10 International Aid to Refugees in Kenya: The Neglected Role of the Somali Diaspora / Cindy Hoist Hoist, Cindy 195

Part 3 Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities

11 The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives / Jane Freedman Freedman, Jane 211

12 Migration as a Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou Babou, Cheikh Anta 230

13 What the General of Amadou Bamba Saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa / Beth A. Buggenhagen Buggenhagen, Beth A. 248

14 Toward Understanding a Culture of Migration among "Elite" African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora / Rachel R. Reynolds Reynolds, Rachel R. 270.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

854968344

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