Africans and the Exiled Life (eBook, ePUB)

Migration, Culture, and Globalization
Redaktion: Abidde, Sabella Ogbobode; Gill, Brenda Ingrid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning in the second-half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century their reasons for and pattern of migration have been largely influenced by globalization. Globalization, by its very nature, cuts across virtually every aspect of the human life and human society. And especially in the United States, African immigrants are subject to the undercurrents of globalization - particularly in the areas of culture, religion, interpersonal relationships, and the assimilation and acculturation process. Relying on the vast theoretical and practical experience of academics and public intellectuals across three continents, this book succinctly interrogates some of the pull/push factors of migration, the challenges of globalizing forces, and the daily reality of relocation. The everyday reality and experiences of blacks in the diaspora (Latin America, Caribbean, and Europe) are also part of the discourse and the subject matters are approached from different perspectives and paradigms. Africans and the Exiled Life, therefore, is a compelling and rich addition to the ongoing global debate and understanding of migration and exile.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498550895
• Artikelnr.: 50718094

Autorenporträt

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is associate professor of political science at Alabama State University. Brenda Ingrid Gill is associate professor of sociology at Alabama State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Why They Migrate: Empirical Evidence Leo Bombom and Paul
Erhunmwunsee Chapter 2: The Geography and the Patterns of Migration Elisha
Japer Dung Chapter 3: Trekking Across the Sahara: A Long History, Troubled
Past, and Hopes for the Future Alecia Hoffman Chapter 4: Nigerians and the
Pursuit of the Golden Fleece Olayinka Oyegbile Chapter 5: Impact of Culture
on Exiles Bruce Ormond Grant Chapter 6: The Children of Immigrants Sasha
Drummond-Lewis Chapter 7: Relocation from Africa, Latin America, and the
Caribbean: Issues and Challenges Brenda I. Gill Chapter 8: Xenophobia in
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Definitions, Theories, and
Experiences Brenda I. Gill and George K. Danns Chapter 9: The African
Immigrant Family in the United States of America: Challenges and
Opportunities Sulayman S. Nyang Chapter 10: Multifaceted Identity Options:
The Case of Two Immigrant Associations in South Africa Magdaline Mbong Mai
Chapter 11: Building Individual Future as Unwanted African Migrants in
Johannesburg: Vulnerability, Hope, and Micro-Entrepreneurship Christal
Oghogho Spel Chapter 12: Representation, Immigration, Experience, and
Memory: A Study of Representational Dynamics of "the Other" in Post
Imperial Britain, 1947-1990s Dollin Wilson Ovaroh-Holt Chapter 13: African
Immigrants and the American Experience Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Chapter 14:
Nigerians in America: Interpersonal Relationships and the Pull of
Globalization Sabella Ogbobode Abidde