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

West African migrations transnational and global pathways in a new century

West African migrations and globalization: introduction / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan -- "You can't go home no more," Africans in America in the age of globalization / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- Transnational identity formation as a kaleidoscopic process: social loca...

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Weitere Verfasser: Okome, Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké (HerausgeberIn), Vaughan, Olufemi (HerausgeberIn), Abdullah, Zain (VerfasserIn), Adesanmi, Pius (VerfasserIn), Ness, Immanuel (VerfasserIn), Renne, Elisha P. (VerfasserIn), Soyinka-Airewele, Peyi (VerfasserIn), Ufomata, Titilayo (VerfasserIn), Whitehouse, Bruce (VerfasserIn), Zalanga, Samuel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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African diaspora > Transnationalism > Ethnicity > West Africans > Social conditions > Internationale Migration > Arbeitnehmer > Migration > Globalisierung > Transnationalisierung > Diaspora > Wirkung > Auswirkung > Identität > Nationalbewusstsein > Beispiel > Westafrika > Africa, West > Emigration and immigration > Westliche Welt > Konferenzschrift
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Zusammenfassung:West African migrations and globalization: introduction / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome and Olufemi Vaughan -- "You can't go home no more," Africans in America in the age of globalization / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome -- Transnational identity formation as a kaleidoscopic process: social location, geography, and the spirit of critical engagement / Samuel Zalanga -- What to wear? Dress and transnational African identity / Elisha P. Renne -- Insurgent transnational conversations in Nigeria's "Nollywood" cinema / Peyi Soyinka-Airewele -- Centripetal forces: reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field / Bruce Whitehouse -- Towards an African Muslim globality: the parading of transnational identities in Black America / Zain Abdullah -- African migrant worker militancy in the global North: labor contracting and independent worker organizing in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- Transnational memories and identity / Titilayo Ufomata -- Arrested nationalism, imposed transnationalism and the African literature classroom: one Nigerian writer's learning curve / Pius Adesanmi
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Beschreibung:xiii, 280 Seiten
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ISBN:0230338674
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9780230338678
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