Introduction Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi Part 1: Negotiating Citizenship and Cultural Identities 1. Nationalist Myth-Making, Cultural Identity and Nation Building: African Minorities in the U.S. and Latin America Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o 2. African Immigrants’ Experiences in Urban America: Religion and the Construction of Social Identity in St. Louis Attah Anthony Agbali 3. ‘Born in the USA’: Dislocation, Disrupted Kinship Networks, and the Transformative Power of Music and Dance in African Immigrant Baby Naming Ceremonies Sherri Canon 4. A Viagem da Minha Vida / The Voyage of My Life: Identity Formation and Resettlement among Angolan Women of Color in Toronto Robert A. Kenedy and Diana Reis Part 2: African Refugees And Policy Implications 5. Policy Implications of African Refugees Settling in the United States Femina T.M. Ajayi 6. The Making of a Modern Diaspora: The Resettlement Process of the Somali Bantu Refugees in the United States Omar A. Eno 7. Voluntary Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Nigerians’ Attitudes to the American Visa Lottery Elizabeth Augustus and Preston Augustus 8. Managing the Migration of Health-Care Workers Toward the Transfer of Knowledge, Skill and Professionalism Oladapo Augustus 9. African Immigrants’ Families and the American Educational System Cecilia S. Obeng
Biography
Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi
