Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: African Dynamics
People En Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations
Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g
Reihe: African Dynamics
ISBN: 978-90-04-30171-9
Verlag: Brill
The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. These experiences are explored and give insight into the socio-cultural and economics transformations that have taken place in African societies in the past century.
Contributors are:
Akinyinka Akinyoade, Walter van Beek, Marleen Dekker, Ton Dietz, Rijk van Dijk, Isaie Dougnon, Jan-Bart Gewald, Meike de Goede, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, Samuel Ntewusu Aniegye, Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin, Shehu Tijjani Yusuf, Augustine Tanle and Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
Weitere Infos & Material
PART 1
Introduction
1 African Roads to Prosperity: People en Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations
Jan-Bart Gewald & Akinyinka Akinyoade
2 Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit
Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
3 Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept
Ton Dietz
PART 2
Zones of Transit
4 Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a Zone of Transit in Barotseland: The Development of a Holding Zone for Migrants on the Extreme Frontier of the South African Empire
Jan-Bart Gewald
5 ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s
Shehu Tijjani Yusuf
6 Migration and Competition around Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948
Isaie Dougnon
7 Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition?
Marleen Dekker
PART 3
Zones of Transference
8 A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility
Rijk van Dijk
9 The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity
Walter van Beek
10 Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Augustine Tanle & Benjamin Kofi Nyarko
11 Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands
Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin & Akinyinka Akinyoade
PART 4
Zones of Transit and Transference
12 So be nya dagna? (‘Is someone injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana
Samuel Ntewusu & Edward Nanbigne
13 Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana
Akinyinka Akinyoade
14 Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone
Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
15 Kinshasa: A city of refugees
Meike de Goede
List of Contributors