Kinship networks and international migration in Nigeria / by Olayinka Akanle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akanle, Olayinka.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Nigeria.

Migration, Internal.

Nigeria--Emigration and immigration.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book gives a detailed, comprehensive and insightful account of Nigeriansa international migration trajectories, drivers, processes and dynamics. The book is inspired by the orientation and conviction that, as developing nations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the world struggle with pathways to development, the time has come to consistently factor in international migration so as to sustainably annex the gains and mitigate loss within the framework of Migration for Development (M4D). However, before migration can drive development, emigration and return forces must be sufficiently understood, especially with regards to the interface of kinship networks which punctuate and strongly influence behavioural characteristics and social relations of Africans. - - The book was written with strong sociological and anthropological elements and with important academic and pragmatic development orientations. It realistically engages with recent discourses and debates in migration and diaspora studies, kinship, return migration, remittances and migration for development policies and practices. The book is of both theoretical and practical importance, establishing a useful interface among theoretical, empirical and pragmatic issues with relevance not only for the largely sendinga developing nations, but also for the receivinga developed nations of Europe, America and a few emerging economies of Asia. This book will be very useful as teaching, research and policy material. - -

Contents:

Introduction

History and trajectories of contemporary international migrations in Nigeria

Kinship and return migration

Theoretical contextualization

Methodological imperatives of kinship and international migration in Nigeria

Kinship, first time migration and social class

Kinship norms and appropriation within migration cycle

Returnees' support system

Migrants' kinship construction

Ethnography of African proverbs in Nigerian international migration contextualities

Modelling kinship, support and migration

Concluding reflections.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-5000-4

OCLC:

855505116