West African migrations: transnational and global pathways in a new century

West African migrations: transnational and global pathways in a new century

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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. MOJÚBÀOLÚ OLÚFÚNKÉ OKOME Professor of Political Science at CUNY-Brooklyn College, USA. OLUFEMI VAUGHAN Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin College, USA. INDICE: 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' - ArrestedNationalism, Imposed Transnationalism and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve; 'P.Adesanmi '

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-33867-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 294
  • Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés