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Zusatztext Thoughtful, enlightening and thought-provoking. This is a must read for anthropologists, psychosocial workers and persons interested in child mental health and criminal law.' - Grace Akello, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Uganda 'Fisher introduces fresh insight and more creative options to important moral and practical challenges. Her candid approach transcends the simple moral calculus and impractical policy conventions through a well informed and practically guided engagement that speaks to proponents of children's rights, justice advocates and peace practitioners.' - Hugo van der Merwe, Director of Research, Transitional Justice Programme, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa JV 32620682-E785-41A7-A443-FF1618C5F1A9 628173 Electronic Book Text 579581 9781137011992 1137011998 West African Migrations Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century E.Book West African Migrations 03/01/2012 01/03/2012 59A IR and Development - USA Academic M. Okome; O. Vaughan 33703 Edited By Author Record 1 Professor Brooklyn College-CUNY, USA mojubaolu@gmail.com 59A IR and Development - USA Academic US Domestic Pal Scholarly E7 - Distributed to Vendors E5 - Pending Distribution JPS - International relations; JFFS - Globalization; JHBD - Population & demography POL011000; SOC006000; SOC015000; SOC026000; POL033000 Politics - International Relations; Politics - Political Sociology, Power and the State; Politics & IR - Political Sociology; AfricanStudies - Afircan Politics and Law; African Studies - African Sociology Professional and Scholarly 53.33 105.00 Green EPUB EBook 294 0 sa 2015-06-08 17:31:06.873 Words West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction; M.O.Okome & O.Vaughan 'You can't go home no more,' Africans in America in the Age of Globalization; M.O.Okome Transnational Identity Formation as a Kaleidoscopic Process: Social Location, Geography, and the Spirit of Critical Engagement; S.Zalanga What to Wear? Dress and Transnational African Identity; E.P.Renne Insurgent Transnational Conversations in Nigeria's 'Nollywood' Cinema; P.Soyinka-Airewele Centripetal forces: Reconciling cosmopolitan lives and local loyalty in a Malian transnational social field; B.Whitehouse Towards an African Muslim Globality: The Parading of Transnational Identities in Black America; Z.Abdullah African Migrant Worker Militancy in the Global North: Labor Contracting and Independent Worker Organizing in New York City; I.Ness Transnational Memories and Identity; T.Ufomata Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer's Learning Curve; P.Adesanmi Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries. 1)TOP EDITORS: Okome and Vaughan are leading scholars of African and global politics. 2) INTERDISCIPLINARY: The collection brings together work from the research projects of scholars across the social sciences and humanities. 3) LIVELY WRITING: The contributors' analyses are leavened with fascinating personal anecdotes and examples drawn from first-hand experience. ' West African Migrationscomplicates past 'isms' and present 'scapes' of our global era by humanizing the homeland or the diaspora as a space of constantly shifting conjunctures, monologues, and disjunctures-ultimately conditioned by the trans-migrant's state of mind. In this timely volume, Africa and the West locate a neutral nexus for a long overdue dialogue. A must read for scholars and general readers seeking new meanings for our liminal existence within and without increasingly artificial borders.'-Niyi Afolabi, associate professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Department of...
