Africa's return migrants : the new developers? / edited by Lisa Åkesson and Maria Eriksson Baaz.

Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; 1: Introduction ; The Celebratory Story of Returnees' Contribution to Development ; Conceptual and Analytical Framework ; The Chapters ; Bibliography ; 2: Successive Flops and Occasional Feats: Development Contributions and Thorny Social Navigation Among Congolese Return Migrants; A Brief Background to Congolese Return Migration and the Context of Return ; Some Notes on Methodology ; Engaging in New 'Innovative' Business? ; Conducting Business Differently? ; The Main Challenges: Social Capital and Networks ; Conclusions.

Preparing and Managing Return Recognising and Seizing Opportunities ; Uncle Kumah Aka Mr Cash ; Translocal and Transnational Citizenries ; Resource Mobilisation ; Narratives of Excellence and Leadership ; 'Big Men'; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography ; 5: 'Come Back, Invest, and Advance the Country': Policy Myths and Migrant Realities of Return and Development in Senegal; Introduction ; Economic Advancement Expectations and Senegalese Policy Myths ; The Business Logics of Return Migrant Investors in Senegal.

Capital Repatriation or Home-Held Capital? Business Logics and Social NetworksUnderstandings of Success and Commitment to Personal and National Good ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; 6: The Role of Social Capital in Post-Conflict Business Development: Perspectives from Returning Migrants in Burundi; Introduction ; The History of Migration ; The Theoretical Framework ; The Economic Field in Burundi ; Returnees as Actors in the Economic Field ; Social Capital in the Burundian Economic Field ; Activating, Building and Maintaining Social Capital ; Conclusion ; References.

7: Threatening Miniskirts: Returnee South Sudanese Adolescent Girls and Social ChangeThe Evolving Post-War Environment in South Sudan and Research Methods; Settling in and Social Change ; Diverse Experiences of Girls' Settling In: Threatening Miniskirts and Transforming Gender and Generational Order ; Returnee Girls and Their Ambiguous Positions in Relation to Change ; Return as a Gendered and Generational Patchwork ; Bibliography ; 8: Obstacles and Openings: Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Cape Verde; Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Africa; Method and Material.

An important investigation into the actual practices of African return migrants, and their abilities - or otherwise - to act as the continent's 'new developers'

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