Africa's Return Migrants - The New Developers?

Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to ''return'' is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as connections and experience gained abroad. Yet, the reality is altogether more complex.In this much-needed volume, based on extensive original fieldwork, the authors reveal that there is all too often a gaping divide between abstract policy assumptions and migrants'' actual practices. In contrast to the prevailing optimism of policies on migration and development, demonstrates that the capital obtained abroad is not always advantageous and that it can even hamper successful entrepreneurship and other forms of economic, political and social engagement.>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Maria Eriksson Baaz is associate professor at the School of Global Studies, the University of Gothenburg, and senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. She is the co-author (with Maria Stern) of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? (Zed Books, 2013) and the author of The Paternalism of Partnership (Zed Books, 2005).

Zusammenfassung

An important investigation into the actual practices of African return migrants, and their abilities – or otherwise – to act as the continent's 'new developers'.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: 197, Lisa Akesson, Lisa Baaz Akesson, Maria Eriksson Baaz, Lisa kesson
• Mitarbeit: Lisa Akesson (Herausgeber), Lisa Åkesson (Herausgeber), Maria Eriksson Baaz (Herausgeber), Baaz Maria Eriksson (Herausgeber), Nordic Africa Institute (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Zed Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.07.2015
• EAN: 9781783602339
• ISBN: 978-1-78360-233-9
• Seiten: 192
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Serien: Africa Now; Zed Books - Africa Now; Africa Now
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, Africa, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, Development Studies, Population and migration geography, Development and environmental geography