Elina Marmer – författare

This open access, groundbreaking collection sheds new light on the lives and livilhoods of members of emerging African diaspora around the world.Across seven chapters, the book explores “new” African diasporas in both the Global North and Global South - that is, diasporas formed through more recent, usually unforced migration patterns, as opposed to those formed via older, often forced migrations such as those caused by the Atlantic slave trade. Along the way, this global, multidisciplinary team of researchers, themselves hailing from both the Global North and Global South, provide crucial insights into common issues and problems faced by members of these new diaspora, including social acceptance, economic challenges, and psychological and identity struggles.This is a must-read for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in migration, global development, and contemporary developments in social perceptions of African identities.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nordic Africa Institute.

This open access, groundbreaking collection sheds new light on the lives and livilhoods of members of emerging African diaspora around the world.Across seven chapters, the book explores “new” African diasporas in both the Global North and Global South - that is, diasporas formed through more recent, usually unforced migration patterns, as opposed to those formed via older, often forced migrations such as those caused by the Atlantic slave trade. Along the way, this global, multidisciplinary team of researchers, themselves hailing from both the Global North and Global South, provide crucial insights into common issues and problems faced by members of these new diaspora, including social acceptance, economic challenges, and psychological and identity struggles.This is a must-read for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in migration, global development, and contemporary developments in social perceptions of African identities.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nordic Africa Institute.

Issues of cultural identity and cultural heritage are at the heart of contemporary discourses in many parts of the world. They are used to identify and address the inequalities by marginalized groups; however, they also feed the re-nationalization and ethno-purist fantasies. But what exactly is culture? In this volume, the authors explore how culture is conceptualized and practised by young people in eight countries in numerous and very diverse contexts – schools, interest clubs, organizations and informal youth groups. The chapters show that concepts of culture vary widely within and across sites, regions and countries, highlighting the common, as well as particular, challenges that notions of identity and heritage pose for young people who often aspire to an inclusive and open society