Africans on the Move -

Africans on the Move

Migration, Diaspora and Development Nexus

Fassil Demissie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-84664-7 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the complexity of African migration and diaspora, the discourse of ‘diaspora engagement’ and new models of citizenship and transnationalism in the context of major political upheavals and globalization in the 20th century. It was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.
The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and dispersal of populations across the world because of major political upheavals, among them the two European wars, decolonization and the Cold War. These major events were followed by globalization which accelerated free trade and the mobility of capital, new technologies of communication, and the movement of people, commodities, ideas, and cultures across the world. This book explores the complexity of African migration and diaspora, the discourse of ‘diaspora engagement’ and new models of citizenship and transnationalism in the context of these issues.

This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Fassil Demissie, PD.D is a faculty member in the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University, USA. He is currently the Co-Editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal and is the author of Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (2012) and Postcolonial African Cities, (2008).

Preface 1. What if diasporas didn’t think about development?: a critical approach of the international discourse on migration and development 2. ‘Saving the Congo’: transnational social fields and politics of home in the Congolese diaspora 3. Immigrants and transnational engagement in the diaspora: Ghana associations in Italy and the United Kingdom 4. Guinea-Bissau immigrant transnationalism in Portugal: A substitute for a failed state? 5. Being here and there: migrant communities in Sweden and the conflicts in the Horn of Africa 6. From ‘remittance’ to ‘tax’: the shifting meaning and strategies of capture of the Eritrean transnational party-state 7. Transnational mobility, social capital and cosmopolitan women traders in Ghana 8. ‘Voting with their feet’: Senegalese youth, clandestine boat migration and the gendered politics of protest 9. Affective economies: Eastleigh’s metalogistics, urban anxieties and the mapping of diasporic city life

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-84664-3 / 1138846643
ISBN-13 978-1-138-84664-7 / 9781138846647
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