African migrations
Subtitle: patterns and perspectives
By: edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780253003089; 9780253005762; 9780253005830
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; African diaspora; Africans; Migrations
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: African patterns of migration in a global era: new perspectives; title: Part 1. Psychological, socio-cultural and political dimensions of African migration; title: 1. Overcoming the economistic fallacy: social determinants of voluntary migration from the Sahel to the Congo basin / Bruce Whitehouse; title: 2. Migration as coping with risk: African migrants' conception of being far from home and states' policy of barriers / Isaie Dougnon; title: 3. Navigating diaspora: the precarious depths of the Italian immigration crisis / Donald Carter; title: 4. Historic changes underway in African migration policies: from muddling through to organized brain circulation / Rubin Patterson; title: Part 2. Translocal and transnational connections: between belonging and exclusion; title: 5. Belonging amidst shifting sands: insertion, self-exclusion, and the remaking of African urbanism / Loren Landau; title: 6. Securing wealth, managing social relations: rural-urban migration and the moral politics of reciprocity, gender, and belonging in neoliberal Tanzania / Hansjoerg Dilger; title: 7. Voluntary and involuntary homebodies: adaptations and lived experiences of Hausa left behind in Niamey, Niger / Scott Youngstedt; title: 8. Strangers are like the mist: language in the push and pull of the African diaspora / Paul Stoller; title: 9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? negotiating space and identity in the new African religious diaspora / Afe Adogame; title: 10. Somali assistance networks: the social dynamics of sending remittances / Cindy Horst; title: Part 3. Feminization of migration and the appearance of diasporic identities; title: 11. The feminization of asylum migration from Africa: problems and perspectives / Jane Freedman; title: 12. Migration as factor of cultural change abroad and at home: Senegalese female hair braiders in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou; title: 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; title: 14. Towards understanding a culture of migration among 'elite' African youth: educational capital and the future of the Igbo diaspora / Rachel R. Reynolds.