African Diaspora Identities

Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Av John A. Arthur

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African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country-specific cultures and normative belief systems. He illuminates the fact that these transnational migrant identities are an amalgamation of multiple identities formed in varied social transnational settings. The United States has become a site for the cultural formations, manifestations, and contestations of the newer identities that these immigrants seek to depict in cross-cultural and global settings. Relying mostly on their strong human capital resources (education and family), Africans are devising creative, encompassing, and robust ways to position and reposition their new identities. In combining their African cultural forms and identities with new roles, norms, and beliefs that they imbibe in the United States and everywhere else they have settled, Africans are redefining what it means to be black in a race-, ethnicity-, and color-conscious American society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-12-09
Mått155 x 233 x 21 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor318
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739146385

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Chapter 1: Constructing African Immigrant Identities in Transnational DomainsChapter 2: Situating Africa's Brain Drain Dilemma in Global MigrationsChapter 3: Transnational African Immigrant Lives and IdentitiesChapter 4: Rationalizing the Meanings of African MigrationsChapter 5: Gendering the Diaspora Identities of Second Generation African Immigrant GirlsChapter 6: African Immigrants and Native-Born Blacks: Discourses on Finding Common GroundChapter 7: Imagining the Future of African Immigrant Identities in Migration Studies

African Diaspora Identities: Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration is a fascinating and groundbreaking discussion of contemporary African migration as one of the major challenges faced by postcolonial African states. Beyond the old and tired argument of grinding poverty and deprivation as major factors in African migration, Arthur links this phenomenon to other factors, including the new global economic system and the easy transferability of the educational credentials of many educated African immigrants that have spurred them to become important players in the global migration process. Indeed, the book not only explodes the myth of African immigrants as dependents of the welfare state, but as highly educated, highly motivated and hard working individuals determined to earn their rightful and respectful place in the United States and elsewhere while also using the benefits of their new environment to improve the socio-economic conditions of their less priveleged family members back home. This is an absolute must-read for any student of migration.