African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New Perspectives Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy 1 PART 1. PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIOCULTURAL, AND POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF AFRICAN MIGRATION 1. Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse 19 2. Migration as Coping with Risk and State Barriers: Malian Migrants’ Conception of Being Far from Home Isaie Dougnon 35 3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter 59 4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin Patterson 78 PART 2. TRANSLOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS: BETWEEN BELONGING AND EXCLUSION 5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-Exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren B. Landau 93 6. Securing Wealth, Ordering Social Relations: Kinship, Morality, and the Configuration of Subjectivity and Belonging across the Rural-Urban Divide Hansjörg Dilger 113 7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa “Left Behind” in Niamey, Niger Scott M. Youngstedt 133 x Contents 8. Strangers Are Like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller 158 9. Toward a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame 173 10. International Aid to Refugees in Kenya: The Neglected Role of the Somali Diaspora Cindy Horst 195 PART 3. FEMINIZATION OF MIGRATION AND THE APPEARANCE OF DIASPORIC IDENTITIES 11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman 211 12. Migration as a Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou 230 13. What the General of Amadou Bamba Saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa Beth A. Buggenhagen 248 14. Toward Understanding a Culture of Migration among “Elite” African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. Reynolds 270 Contributors 287 Index 289 ...