West African Migrations

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.

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.

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