African migrations : patterns and perspectives /

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 vari...

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Other Authors / Creators:Kane, Abdoulaye.
Leedy, Todd H.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction: African patterns of migration in a global era: new perspectives -- Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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. 
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