Migrants and Strangers in an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrants and Strangers in an African City write by Bruce Whitehouse. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Migrants and Strangers in an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Migrants and Strangers in an African City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Migrants and Strangers in an African City write by Bruce Whitehouse. This book was released on 2012-03-14. Migrants and Strangers in an African City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finding place and identity in a globalized world
Forging African Communities
Forging African Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forging African Communities write by Oliver Bakewell. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Forging African Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. In doing so, it complements vibrant scholarly and political discussions of migrant integration globally with innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives focused on migration within Africa. It sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of home, community, citizenship and belonging. The authors ask how people’s movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind. Original case studies from across Africa question the concepts, actors, and social trajectories dominant in the contemporary literature. Moreover, it speaks to and challenges sociological debates over the nature of migrant integration, debates largely shaped by research in the world’s wealthy regions. The text, in part or as a whole, will appeal to students and scholars of migration, development, urban and rural transformation, African studies and displacement.
Strangers in the Land of Paradise
Strangers in the Land of Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers in the Land of Paradise write by Lillian Serece Williams. This book was released on 2000-07-22. Strangers in the Land of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback! Strangers in the Land of Paradise The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, NY, 1900–1940 Lillian Serece Williams Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration. "A splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history. . . . expanding the tradition that is now well underway of refuting the pathological emphasis of the prevailing ghetto studies of the 1960s and '70s." —Joe W. Trotter Strangers in the Land of Paradise discusses the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It describes values and institutions that Black migrants from the South brought with them, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with Blacks native to the city and the city itself. Through an examination of work, family, community organizations, and political actions, Lillian Williams explores the process by which the migrants adapted to their new environment. The lives of African Americans in Buffalo from 1900 to 1940 reveal much about race, class, and gender in the development of urban communities. Black migrant workers transformed the landscape by their mere presence, but for the most part they could not rise beyond the lowest entry-level positions. For African American women, the occupational structure was even more restricted; eventually, however, both men and women increased their earning power, and that—over time—improved life for both them and their loved ones. Lillian Serece Williams is Associate Professor of History in the Women's Studies Department and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Albany, the State University of New York. She is editor of Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895–1992, associate editor of Black Women in United States History, and author of A Bridge to the Future: The History of Diversity in Girl Scouting. 352 pages, 14 b&w illus., 15 maps, notes, bibl., index, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Blacks in the Diaspora—Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey, Jr., and David Barry Gaspar, general editors
African Migrations
African Migrations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Migrations write by Abdoulaye Kane. This book was released on 2013. African Migrations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
