West African Migrations

Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34171-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okome, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction; M.O.Okome  & O.Vaughan 'You can't go home no more,' Africans in America in the Age of Globalization; M.O.Okome Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit of Critical Engagement; S.Zalanga What to Wear? Dress and Transnational African Identity; E.P.Renne Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria's 'Nollywood' Cinema; P.Soyinka-Airewele Centripetal forces: Reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field; B.Whitehouse Towards an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities in Black America; Z.Abdullah African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City; I.Ness Transnational Memories and Identity; T.Ufomata Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve; P.Adesanmi

Über Autor(innen)

MOJÚBÀOLÚ OLÚFÚNKÉ OKOME Professor of Political Science at CUNY-Brooklyn College, USA.
OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College, USA.