Kinship networks and international migration in Nigeria
By: Olayinka Akanle
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781443848688
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Social networks; Kinship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: History and trajectories of contemporary international migrations in Nigeria --; title: Kinship and return migration --; title: Theoretical contextualization --; title: Methodological imperatives of kinship and international migration in Nigeria --; title: Kinship, first time migration and social class --; title: Kinship norms and appropriation within migration cycle --; title: Returnees' support system --; title: Migrants' kinship construction --; title: Ethnography of African proverbs in Nigerian international migration contextualities --; title: Modelling kinship, support and migration --; title: Concluding reflections.