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UNINA9910459512603321 |
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Autore |
Arthur John A. <1958-> |
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Titolo |
African diaspora identities [[electronic resource] ] : negotiating culture in transnational migration / / John A. Arthur |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-82010-9 |
9786612820106 |
0-7391-4639-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Transnationalism - Africa |
African diaspora |
Ethnicity - Africa |
Electronic books. |
Africa Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Constructing African Immigrant Identities in Transnational Domains; Chapter 2. Situating Africa's Brain Drain in Global Migrations; Chapter 3. Transnational African Immigrant Lives and Identities; Chapter 4. Rationalizing the Meanings of African Migrations; Chapter 5. Gendering the Diaspora Identities of Second-Generation African Immigrant Girls; Chapter 6. African Immigrants and Native-Born Blacks: Discourses on Finding Common Ground; Chapter 7. Imagining the Future of African Immigrant Identities in Migration Studies |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book positions the identities that African ZmigrZs negotiate in transnational migration. It seeks to investigate the structure and modalities of the broader social contexts and parameters underpinning how these identities are constructed and rationalized. The identities African immigrants depict are transnational, resilient, enterprising, altruistic, and based upon a yearning desire for economic opportunities and total incorporation in global affairs. Their migratory identities are |
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