African migrations patterns and perspectives /
African migrations patterns and perspectives /
edited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: African patterns of migration in a global era: new perspectives -- Part 1. Psychological, socio-cultural and political dimensions of African migration -- 1. Overcoming the economistic fallacy: social determinants of voluntary migration from the Sahel to the Congo basin / 2. Migration as coping with risk: African migrants' conception of being far from home and states' policy of barriers / 3. Navigating diaspora: the precarious depths of the Italian immigration crisis / 4. Historic changes underway in African migration policies: from muddling through to organized brain circulation / Part 2. Translocal and transnational connections: between belonging and exclusion -- 5. Belonging amidst shifting sands: insertion, self-exclusion, and the remaking of African urbanism / 6. Securing wealth, managing social relations: rural-urban migration and the moral politics of reciprocity, gender, and belonging in neoliberal Tanzania / 7. Voluntary and involuntary homebodies: adaptations and lived experiences of Hausa left behind in Niamey, Niger / 8. Strangers are like the mist: language in the push and pull of the African diaspora / 9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? negotiating space and identity in the new African religious diaspora / 10. Somali assistance networks: the social dynamics of sending remittances / Part 3. Feminization of migration and the appearance of diasporic identities -- 11. The feminization of asylum migration from Africa: problems and perspectives / 12. Migration as factor of cultural change abroad and at home: Senegalese female hair braiders in the United States / 13. What the general of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: gendered displays of devotion among migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa / 14. Towards understanding a culture of migration among 'elite' African youth: educational capital and the future of the Igbo diaspora / Bruce Whitehouse -- Isaie Dougnon -- Donald Carter -- Rubin Patterson -- Loren Landau -- Hansjoerg Dilger -- Scott Youngstedt -- Paul Stoller -- Afe Adogame -- Cindy Horst -- Jane Freedman -- Cheikh Anta Babou -- Beth A. Buggenhagen -- Rachel R. Reynolds.
9780253005830
Africans--Migrations.
African diaspora.
Electronic Books.
DT16 / .A375 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: African patterns of migration in a global era: new perspectives -- Part 1. Psychological, socio-cultural and political dimensions of African migration -- 1. Overcoming the economistic fallacy: social determinants of voluntary migration from the Sahel to the Congo basin / 2. Migration as coping with risk: African migrants' conception of being far from home and states' policy of barriers / 3. Navigating diaspora: the precarious depths of the Italian immigration crisis / 4. Historic changes underway in African migration policies: from muddling through to organized brain circulation / Part 2. Translocal and transnational connections: between belonging and exclusion -- 5. Belonging amidst shifting sands: insertion, self-exclusion, and the remaking of African urbanism / 6. Securing wealth, managing social relations: rural-urban migration and the moral politics of reciprocity, gender, and belonging in neoliberal Tanzania / 7. Voluntary and involuntary homebodies: adaptations and lived experiences of Hausa left behind in Niamey, Niger / 8. Strangers are like the mist: language in the push and pull of the African diaspora / 9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? negotiating space and identity in the new African religious diaspora / 10. Somali assistance networks: the social dynamics of sending remittances / Part 3. Feminization of migration and the appearance of diasporic identities -- 11. The feminization of asylum migration from Africa: problems and perspectives / 12. Migration as factor of cultural change abroad and at home: Senegalese female hair braiders in the United States / 13. What the general of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: gendered displays of devotion among migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa / 14. Towards understanding a culture of migration among 'elite' African youth: educational capital and the future of the Igbo diaspora / Bruce Whitehouse -- Isaie Dougnon -- Donald Carter -- Rubin Patterson -- Loren Landau -- Hansjoerg Dilger -- Scott Youngstedt -- Paul Stoller -- Afe Adogame -- Cindy Horst -- Jane Freedman -- Cheikh Anta Babou -- Beth A. Buggenhagen -- Rachel R. Reynolds.
9780253005830
Africans--Migrations.
African diaspora.
Electronic Books.
DT16 / .A375 2012