West African migrations
Subtitle: transnational and global pathways in a new century
By: edited by Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230338678
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; West Africans; African diaspora; Social conditions; Transnationalism; Ethnicity
Notes: "One of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College"--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: West African migrations and globalization: introduction / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan; title: "You can't go home no more," Africans in America in the age of globalization / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome; title: Transnational identity formation as a kaleidoscopic process: social location, geography, and the spirit of critical engagement / Samuel Zalanga; title: What to wear? Dress and transnational African identity / Elisha P. Renne; title: Insurgent transnational conversations in Nigeria's "Nollywood" cinema / Peyi Soyinka-Airewele; title: Centripetal forces: reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field / Bruce Whitehouse; title: Towards an African Muslim globality: the parading of transnational identities in Black America / Zain Abdullah; title: African migrant worker militancy in the global North: labor contracting and independent worker organizing in New York City / Immanuel Ness; title: Transnational memories and identity / Titilayo Ufomata; title: Arrested nationalism, imposed transnationalism and the African literature classroom: one Nigerian writer's learning curve / Pius Adesanmi.