Okome West African Migrations

Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century
2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-01200-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, eBook

Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okome, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction; M.O.Okome  & O.Vaughan   'You can't go home no more,' Africans in America in the Age of Globalization; M.O.Okome   Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit of Critical Engagement; S.Zalanga   What to Wear? Dress and Transnational African Identity; E.P.Renne   Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria's 'Nollywood' Cinema; P.Soyinka-Airewele   Centripetal forces: Reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field; B.Whitehouse   Towards an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities in Black America; Z.Abdullah  African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City; I.Ness   Transnational Memories and Identity; T.Ufomata   Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve; P.Adesanmi

Über Autor(innen)

MOJÚBÀOLÚ OLÚFÚNKÉ OKOME Professor of Political Science at CUNY-Brooklyn College, USA. OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College, USA.