LEADER 04325oam  22005534a 450 
001 9910786005503321
005 20181102015540.0
010   $a0-253-00583-3
010   $a1-283-94029-9
035   $a(CKB)2670000000330637
035   $a(EBL)816850
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000832079
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)11521869
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832079
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10880405
035   $a(PQKB)11713157
035   $a(OCoLC)859687435
035   $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18217
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816850
035   $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330637
100   $a20120213d2012      uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 00$aAfrican Migrations$b[electronic resource] $ePatterns and Perspectives /$fedited by Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2013
215   $a1 online resource (316 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a0-253-00576-0 
311   $a0-253-00308-3 
327   $aIntroduction: 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 / Bruce Whitehouse -- 2. Migration as coping with risk: African migrants' conception of being far from home and states' policy of barriers / Isaie Dougnon -- 3. Navigating diaspora: the precarious depths of the Italian immigration crisis / Donald Carter -- 4. Historic changes underway in African migration policies: from muddling through to organized brain circulation / Rubin Patterson -- Part 2. Translocal and transnational connections: between belonging and exclusion -- 5. Belonging amidst shifting sands: insertion, self-exclusion, and the remaking of African urbanism / Loren Landau -- 6. Securing wealth, managing social relations: rural-urban migration and the moral politics of reciprocity, gender, and belonging in neoliberal Tanzania / Hansjoerg Dilger -- 7. Voluntary and involuntary homebodies: adaptations and lived experiences of Hausa left behind in Niamey, Niger / Scott Youngstedt -- 8. Strangers are like the mist: language in the push and pull of the African diaspora / Paul Stoller -- 9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? negotiating space and identity in the new African religious diaspora / Afe Adogame -- 10. Somali assistance networks: the social dynamics of sending remittances / Cindy Horst -- Part 3. Feminization of migration and the appearance of diasporic identities -- 11. The feminization of asylum migration from Africa: problems and perspectives / Jane Freedman -- 12. Migration as factor of cultural change abroad and at home: Senegalese female hair braiders in the United States / Cheikh Anta Babou -- 13. What the general of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: gendered displays of devotion among migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa / Beth A. Buggenhagen -- 14. Towards understanding a culture of migration among 'elite' African youth: educational capital and the future of the Igbo diaspora / Rachel R. Reynolds.
330   $aSpurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how
606   $aAfrican diaspora
606   $aAfricans$xMigrations
607   $aAfrica$xEmigration and immigration
608   $aElectronic books. 
615  0$aAfrican diaspora.
615  0$aAfricans$xMigrations.
676   $a304.8096
701   $aLeedy$b Todd H$g(Todd Holzgrefe)$01492603
701   $aKane$b Abdoulaye$01492604
801  0$bMdBmJHUP
801  1$bMdBmJHUP
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910786005503321
996   $aAfrican Migrations$93715207
997   $aUNINA