1st Edition

The Human Cost of African Migrations

Edited By Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi Copyright 2007
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration,... Read more

INTRODUCTION

Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi

PART I: MIGRATIONS AND HEALTH ISSUES

1. Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora

Kathryn H. Jacobsen

2. Discourse of Health Risks and Anti-Racial Diversity in the Media Coverage of the Non-Ebola Panic

Charles Adeyanju

3. "Predatory Globalization"?: The World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Trade in services, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West

Obijiofor Aginam

4. Searching the World: Following Three Graduating Classes of a Nigerian Medical School

Ike Anya, Chikwe Ihekweazu and Enyi Anosike

5. The Group of Twenty Nurses and the Pan African Struggle for Liberation

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

PART II: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION

6. Trafficking of Young Women and Girls: A Case of "Au Pair" and Domestic Laborers in Tanzania

Elinami Veraeli Swai

7. Emerging Issues in the Trafficking of African Women for Prostitution

Victor Nnamdi Opara

8. Trafficking Contracts: Myth or Reality?

Re-Examination of Consent in Human Trafficking

Victor Nnamdi Opara

PART III: MIGRATION AND EDUCATION

9. School Migration: A Major Concern in Historically Disadvantaged Schools in South Africa

Myra Maboya

10. Pushing and Pulling: Western Education’s Impact on Women’s Subjugation in Ghana

Jamaine Abidogun

PART IV: REFUGEES, DISPLACEMENT, & RE-SETTLEMENT

11. Peoples Without Homes: Displacement and Security Situation in Africa

Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

12. Determinants of Ethiopian Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970-2000

Solomon Addis Getahun

13. Refugees as Rational Actors: The Case of Protracted Sudanese Refugees

in Northern Uganda

Samantha Paxton

Biography

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Niyi Afolabi is Assistant Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

"Overall, the book offers an excellent collection of essays on the location of Africa in global migrations. Its multidisciplinary approach is a welcome development vis-à-vis the mainly economic deterministic analysis of migration by other scholars... This fine edited book will certainly register its powerful influences in high and low academic, advocacy and public policy circles. I strongly recommend it as an indispensable companion to all interested in a thorough, original and comparative study of African migrations in global perspective."

--J. Shola Omotola, Redeemer’s University, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies