Africans in Global Migration

Searching for Promised Lands
Herausgeber: Arthur, John A; Owusu, Thomas; Takougang, Joseph

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780739198001
• ISBN-10: 0739198009
• Artikelnr.: 40789194

Autorenporträt

Edited by John A. Arthur; Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu - Contributions by Janet Awokoya; Nemata Blyden; Bassirou Tidjani; Msia Kibona Clark; Hilary Chala Kowino; Tatenda T. Mambo; Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome; Mary Johnson Osirim and Ian Yeboah

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Searching for Promised Lands:
Conceptualization of the African Diaspora in Migration John A. Arthur,
Joseph Takougang and Thomas Owusu Chapter 2: The Role of Ghanaian Immigrant
Associations in Canada Thomas Owusu Chapter 3: Identity Formation and
Integration Among Bicultural Immigrant Blacks Msia Kibona Clark Chapter 4:
Identity Politics of Ghanaian Immigrants in the Greater Cincinnati Area:
Emerging Geography and Sociology of Immigrant Experiences Ian E. A. Yeboah
Chapter 5: Reconciling Multiple Black Identities: The Case of 1.5 and 2.0
Nigerian Immigrants Janet T. Awokoya Chapter 6: Making In-Roads: African
Immigrants and Business Opportunities in the United States Joseph Takougang
and Bassirou Tidjani Chapter 7: Geography of Globalized Nursing Markets:
Zimbabwean Migrant Nurse Trajectory and Work Experiences in the United
Kingdom Ian E. A. Yeboah and Tatenda T. Mambo Chapter 8: Relationships
Among Blacks in the Diaspora: African and Caribbean Immigrants and
American-Born Blacks Nemata Blyden Chapter 9: Conceptualizing the Attitudes
of African Americans Towards United States Immigration Policies John A.
Arthur Chapter 10: African Immigrant Relationships With Homeland Countries
Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome Chapter 11: African Women in the New Diaspora:
Transnationalism and the (Re)Creation of Home Mary Johnson Osirim Chapter
12: Border Questions in African Diaspora Literature Hilary Chala Kowino
Chapter 13: Modeling the Determinants of Voluntary Reverse Migration Flows
and Repatriations of African Immigrants John A. Arthur Chapter 14: Africans
in Global Migration: Still Searching for Promised Lands John A. Arthur and
Thomas Owusu