West African Migrations [electronic resource] : Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century /
Okome, M.editor.
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.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction; 2 "You can't go home no more": Africans in America in the Age of Globalization; 3 Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit of Critical Engagement; 4 What to Wear? Dress and Transnational African Identity; 5 Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria's "Nollywood" Cinema; 6 Centripetal Forces: Reconciling Cosmopolitan Lives and Local Loyalty in a Malian Transnational Social Field
7 Toward an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities in Black America8 African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City; 9 Transnational Memories and Identity; 10 Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism, andthe African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve; Index
"One of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojb͠ỏl ͠Olf͠n͠k ̌Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College"--Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Political sociology.
International relations.
Africa-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Demography.
Political Sociology.
International Relations.
African Politics.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
Demography.