African Migrations

Abdoulaye Kane is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida. He is editor (with Hansjörg Dilger and Stacey A. Langwick) of Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa (IUP, 2011).Todd H. Leedy is Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.

"Population movements have been one of the most important social processes unfolding on the African continent over the past century."—Michael Lambert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"[Explores] new terrain and [gives] nuance to our understanding of African migrations and the African Diaspora.56.1 March 2015"—Journal of African History"[T]he theoretical insights coupled with a strong selection of empirical case studies make overall for an informative and enjoyable read."—African Affairs"The 14 engaging case studies assembled here add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas. . . . Recommended."—Choice

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New PerspectivesAbdoulaye Kane and Todd H. LeedyPart I. Psychological, Socio-cultural and Political Dimensions of African Migration1. Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse2. Migration as Coping with Risk: African Migrants' Conception of Being far from Home and States' Policy of Barriers Isaie Dougnon3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin PattersonPart II. Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren Landau6. Securing Wealth, Managing Social Relations: Rural-urban Migration and the Moral Politics of Reciprocity, Gender, and Belonging in Neoliberal Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa Left Behind in Niamey, Niger Scott Youngstedt8. Strangers are like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame10. Somali Assistance Networks: the Social Dynamics of Sending Remittances Cindy HorstPart III. Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman12. Migration as Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou13. What the General of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa Beth A. Buggenhagen14. Towards Understanding a Culture of Migration among 'Elite' African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. ReynoldsContributorsIndex