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The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.

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'Creese provides the first substantial academic study of the immigration experience of Black sub-Saharan Africans living in the Greater Vancouver area.' -- Sanja Ivanov Canadian Woman Studies, vol 30:01:2013

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness' 1 A New African Diaspora 2 Erasing Linguistic Capital 3 Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers 4 Reproducing Difference at Work 5 Gender, Families, and Transitions 6 Identity and Spaces of Belonging 7 Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community Notes References

The New African Diaspora in Vancouver

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/08/2011
      ISBN13: 9781442642959, 978-1442642959
      ISBN10: 1442642955

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.

      Trade Review
      'Creese provides the first substantial academic study of the immigration experience of Black sub-Saharan Africans living in the Greater Vancouver area.' -- Sanja Ivanov Canadian Woman Studies, vol 30:01:2013

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness' 1 A New African Diaspora 2 Erasing Linguistic Capital 3 Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers 4 Reproducing Difference at Work 5 Gender, Families, and Transitions 6 Identity and Spaces of Belonging 7 Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community Notes References

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