Engaging the Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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: 9798216206033
• Artikelnr.: 74398605

Autorenporträt

Pauline Ada Uwakweh is assistant professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of English, North Carolina A&T State University. She has published articles on women in Research in African Literatures, African Literature Today, and Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA). Jerono P. Rotich is associate professor in the Department of Human Performance and Leisure Studies, School of Education, North Carolina A&T State University. She has published several articles and chapters in refereed journals and books, such as Journal of Negro Education,International Journal of Asian Society for Physical Education, Sports and Dance, and Journal of Black Studies. She serves on the board of directors for the Kenya Students and Scholars Association and the Association of Advancement of Educational Research (AAER). Comfort O. Okpala is professor in leadership studies, School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University. She has a variety of educational publications in refereed journals such as the Journal of Early Childhood Education, Journal of Education Finance, Journal of Educational Researcher, Urban Education, Journal of Applied Business, and Journal of Negro Education.

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 byMichael 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