Across the Atlantic
Subtitle: African immigrants in the United States diaspora
By: [edited by Emmanuel Yewah and 'Dimeji Togunde]
Publisher: Common Ground Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781863357883; 9781863357890
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnic identity; Africans; African diaspora; Emigration and immigration; Social conditions; Immigrants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a fresh perceptive in understanding African migration to the United States diaspora / Emmanuel Yewah & 'Dimeji Togunde; title: Media representation of America and youth migration intentions / 'Dimeji Togunde, Ayobami Ojebode & Amanda Vocke; title: Imagined America in African texts and the desire to migrate / Emmanuel Yewah; title: The recent African immigrant (RAI) as the radical other / Emmanuel Babatunde; title: Reproducing African communities in the United States : settlement patterns and social organizations / Bridget Teboh; title: African emigres in the USA : negotiating ethnic identities, majority-minority statuses, and negative media co-representation / Anthony Olorunnisola; title: African migration and the socio-cultural value of remittances / Ayokunle O. Omobowale, Mofeyisara O. Omobowale and Olawale Ajani; title: Religious institutions : mode of adaptation for African immigrants in the United States / Emmanuel Twesigye; title: The African diaspora's impact on the construction and reconstruction of homeland political identity / Okechukwu Iheduru.