Africans on the move : migration, diaspora and development nexus / edited by Fassil Demissie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demissie, Fassil, editor.

Series:

African Diaspora, 1860-Present (Text)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Migrations.

Africans.

Africans--Europe.

Africans--Economic conditions.

African diaspora.

Africa--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Africa.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 158 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge (Publisher), 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and dispersal of populations across the world because of major political upheavals, among them the two European wars, decolonization, and the Cold War. These major events were followed by globalization, which accelerated free trade and the mobility of capital, new technologies of communication, and the movement of people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. This book explores the complexity of African migration and diaspora, the discourse of 'diaspora engagement' and new models of citizenship and trans-nationalism in the context of these issues. This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Contents:

What if diasporas didn't think about development? : a critical approach of the international discourse on migration and development / Hugo Bréant

Saving the Congo': transnational social fields and politics of home in the Congolese diaspora / David Garbin and Marie Godin

Immigrants and transnational engagement in the diaspora : Ghanaian associations in Italy and the UK / Francesco Marini

Guinea-Bissau immigrant transnationalism in Portugal : a substitute for a failed state? / Sonia Pires

Being here and there : migrant communities in Sweden and the conflicts in the Horn of Africa / Anne Kubai

From 'remittance' to 'tax': the shifting meanings and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state / Samia Tecle and Luin Goldring

Transnational mobility, social capital, and cosmopolitian women traders in Ghana / Laurian R. Bowles

Voting with their feet' : Senegalese youth, clandestine boat migration, and the gendered politics of protest / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

Affective economies : Eastleigh's metalogistics, urban anxieties and the mapping of diasporic city life / Lorenzo Rinelli and Sam Okoth Opondo.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

966784044