The New African Diaspora - 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 The New African Diaspora write by Isidore Okpewho. This book was released on 2009-08-26. The New African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.
The New African Diaspora in Vancouver
The New African Diaspora in Vancouver - 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 The New African Diaspora in Vancouver write by Gillian Laura Creese. This book was released on 2011-01-01. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'African community.' In this study, Gillian Creese analyzes interviews with sixty-one women and men from twenty-one African countries to document the gendered and racialized processes of community-building that occur in the contexts of marginalization and exclusion as they exist in Vancouver. Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobility for immigrants. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China - 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 Mapping the New African Diaspora in China write by Shanshan Lan. This book was released on 2017-04-07. Mapping the New African Diaspora in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, within China, where race is such a politically sensitive topic? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research in China and Nigeria, Mapping the New African Diaspora in China explores a new wave of African migration to South China in the context of the expansion of Sino/African trade relations and the global circulation of racial knowledge. Indeed, grassroots perspectives of China/Africa trade relations are foregrounded through the examination of daily interactions between Africans and rural-to-urban Chinese migrants in various informal trade spaces in Guangzhou. These Afro-Chinese encounters have the potential to not only help reveal the negotiated process of mutual racial learning, but also to subvert hegemonic discourses such as Sino/African friendship and white supremacy in subtle ways. However, as Lan demonstrates within this enlightening volume, the transformative power of such cross-cultural interactions is severely limited by language barrier, cultural differences, and the Chinese state’s stringent immigration control policies. This book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of China/Africa relations, race and ethnic studies, globalization and transnational migration, and urban China studies, as well as those from other social science disciplines such as political science, international relations, urban geography, Asian Studies, African studies, sociology, development studies, and cross-cultural communication studies. It may also appeal to policymakers and non-profit organizations involved in providing services and assistance to migrant populations.
The New African Diaspora in North America
The New African Diaspora in North America - 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 The New African Diaspora in North America write by Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang. This book was released on 2006. The New African Diaspora in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of African immigrants, their spatial distribution, obstacles, and contributions. Despite their increasing presence, African immigrant groups in the U.S. and Canada have engendered relatively little scholarly research on their pre- and post-migration experience. This collection helps fill that void, and will be valuable reading for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies.
New African Diasporas
New African Diasporas - 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 New African Diasporas write by Khalid Koser. This book was released on 2003. New African Diasporas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes statistics.
