Engaging the Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Migration and African Families
Redaktion: Rotich, Jerono P.; Uwakweh, Pauline Ada; Okpala, Comfort O.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By its focus on the African immigrant family, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families carves its own niche on the migration discourse. It brings together the experiences of African immigrant families as defined by various transnational forces. As an interdisciplinary text, Engaging makes a handy reference for scholars and researchers in institutions of higher learning, as well as for community service providers working on diversity issues. It promotes knowledge about Africans in the Diaspora and the African continent through current and relevant case studies. This book enhances learning on the contemporary factors that continue to shape African migrants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739179741
• Artikelnr.: 40286824

Autorenporträt

Edited by Pauline Ada Uwakweh; Jerono P. Rotich and Comfort O. Okpala - Contributions by Ifeyinwa Mbakogu; Amon Okpala; Khadidja Arfi; Michael Kremer; Iheanyichukwu N. Osondu; Amy Duffuor; Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers and Joya Uraizee

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: The African Immigrant Family in the Diaspora: Intersecting Forces
Introduction: (Re)Configuring African Migration Since the Last Forty Years:
Issues, Concepts and Contexts by Pauline Ada Uwakweh Chapter 1: Negotiating
Marriage and Motherhood: A Critical Perspective on the Immigration
Narratives of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie by Pauline Ada Uwakweh
Chapter 2: Who is the Parent and Who is the Kid?: The Changing Face of
Parenting for African Parents in the Diaspora by Ifeyinwa Mbakogu Chapter
3: Migrant African Children Remembering War: Memoirs and Stereotypes by
Joya Uraizee Chapter 4: The Algerian Diaspora in the United States:
Dynamics of Language by Khadidja Arfi Chapter 5: Physical Activity and
Recreation Lifestyle in Transition: A Study of African Immigrant and
Refugee Youth by Jerono Rotich Part Two: Adapting the Diaspora:
Perspectives on African Immigrant Employment and Spirituality Chapter 6:
The Experiences of African-born Professors in Higher Education: A
Phenomenological Study by Comfort Okpala and Amon Okpala Chapter 7:
Diamonds on the Soles of their Shoes": Experiences of African-born
Educators in U.S. Predominantly-White Colleges by Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
Chapter 8: The Golden Ticket: Adjustment of African Diversity Visa Lottery
Winners in America by Michael Kremer Chapter 9: The Role of Cultural
Associations: National and Ethnic in Africa and Diaspora by Iheanyi Osondu
Chapter 10: Fusing Faith and Place: An Examination of Localized Civic
Engagement in African Immigrant Churches by Amy Duffuor