Willing migrants
Subtitle: Soninke labor diasporas, 1848-1960
By: François Manchuelle.
Publisher: Ohio University Press; J. Currey Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Soninke (African people) -- Employment -- Foreign countries.; Soninke (African people) -- Migrations.
Description: The first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, Willing Migrants is based upon a critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and interviews with Soninke migrants. Francois Manchuelle shows that these migrations were driven by a search for improved economic options and that these labor movements have a great deal in common with European and American migrations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-361) and index.