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Book SynopsisDetails African populations in motion
Trade Review[Explores] new terrain and [gives] nuance to our understanding of African migrations and the African Diaspora.56.1 March 2015
* Journal of African History *
[T]he theoretical insights coupled with a strong selection of empirical case studies make overall for an informative and enjoyable read.
* African Affairs *
The 14 engaging case studies assembled here add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas. . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New Perspectives
Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy
Part I. Psychological, Socio-cultural 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
2. Migration as Coping with Risk: African Migrants' Conception of Being far from Home and States' Policy of Barriers Isaie Dougnon
3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter
4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin Patterson
Part II. Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion
5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren Landau
6. Securing Wealth, Managing Social Relations: Rural-urban Migration and the Moral Politics of Reciprocity, Gender, and Belonging in Neoliberal Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger
7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa Left Behind in Niamey, Niger Scott Youngstedt
8. Strangers are like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller
9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame
10. Somali Assistance Networks: the Social Dynamics of Sending Remittances Cindy Horst
Part III. Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities
11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman
12. Migration as Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou
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
14. Towards Understanding a Culture of Migration among 'Elite' African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. Reynolds
Contributors
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