Niyi Afolabi / Toyin Falola (eds.)

Trans-Atlantic Migration

The Paradoxes of Exile
Herausgeber: Falola, Toyin; Afolabi, Niyi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contrasts voluntary labor and political migration with the involuntary diaspora by focusing on the paradoxes of migration, exile, and survival of African immigrants in the New World.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780415960915
• ISBN-10: 0415960916
• Artikelnr.: 22781640

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Prospero's Ripples, Caliban's Burden Part 1: Paradoxes of
(Im)Migration and Exile 2. Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High
Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas / Fort
Worth, Texas (USA) 3. Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion
of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of
Liberation 4. Immigrants' Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic
Portrayals of African Immigrants in Movies Part 2: Migration, Labor
Conflicts, and Development 5. 'The Uprooted Emigrant': The Impact of Brain
Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Circulation on Africa's Development 6. Walking
For Land, Drinking Palm Wine: Migrant Farmers and the Historicity of Land
Conflict in Brong Ahafo, Ghana 7. Migrants in French Sudan: Gender Biases
in the Historiography 8. The Impact of the Relationship between Migrants
and Traditional Authorities on South African Mining Communities Part 3:
Migration and Survival Politics 9. Cultural and Ethnic Accommodation of
New-Comers in South Africa 10. Pan-Africanism: The Impact of the Nkrumah
Years 1945-1966 11. African Political Instability and the Search for an
Inclusive Society 12. A Critical Analysis of the Social and Economic Impact
of Asian Diaspora in Kenya. Conclusion: The Moral Ambiguity of
Trans-Atlantic Migration