West African migrations : transnational and global pathways in a new century

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West African migrations : transnational and global pathways in a new century

edited by Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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"One of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College"--Introd

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.

Table of Contents

  • West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction
  • M.O.Okome & O.Vaughan 'You can't go home no more,' Africans in America in the Age of Globalization
  • M.O.Okome Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit of Critical Engagement
  • S.Zalanga What to Wear? Dress and Transnational African Identity
  • E.P.Renne Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria's 'Nollywood' Cinema
  • P.Soyinka-Airewele Centripetal forces: Reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field
  • B.Whitehouse Towards an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities in Black America
  • Z.Abdullah African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City
  • I.Ness Transnational Memories and Identity
  • T.Ufomata Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve
  • P.Adesanmi

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