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
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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