1st Edition

Trans-Atlantic Migration The Paradoxes of Exile

Edited By Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi Copyright 2008
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa during slavery. Along with this sense of freedom and voluntary migration comes a paradox—that of... Read more

1. Introduction: Prospero’s Ripples, Caliban’s Burden  Part 1: Paradoxes of (Im)Migration and Exile  2. Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas (USA)  3. Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of Liberation  4. Immigrants’ Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic Portrayals of African Immigrants in Movies  Part 2: Migration, Labor Conflicts, and Development  5. 'The Uprooted Emigrant': The Impact of Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Circulation on Africa’s Development  6. Walking For Land, Drinking Palm Wine: Migrant Farmers and the Historicity of Land Conflict in Brong Ahafo, Ghana  7. Migrants in French Sudan: Gender Biases in the Historiography  8. The Impact of the Relationship between Migrants and Traditional Authorities on South African Mining Communities  Part 3: Migration and Survival Politics  9. Cultural and Ethnic Accommodation of New-Comers in South Africa  10. Pan-Africanism: The Impact of the Nkrumah Years 1945–1966  11. African Political Instability and the Search for an Inclusive Society  12. A Critical Analysis of the Social and Economic Impact of Asian Diaspora in Kenya.  Conclusion: The Moral Ambiguity of Trans-Atlantic Migration

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Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi