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Author : Alexandre Devillard,Alessia Bacchi,Marion Noack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3902880368
Author : Paolo Gaibazzi
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387800
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Author : Hilda Kuper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520310407
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Gil Loescher,Katy Long,Nando Sigona
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191645877
Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees' needs and rights. This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world. The 52 state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in universities, research centres, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations, provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today. The chapters vividly illustrate the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.
Author : Kunniparampil Curien Zachariah,Julien Condé
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038977216
A descriptive study of international, internal and rural-urban migration in nine West African countries: Togo, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Mali and Senegal.
Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351044059
Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with studies of migration from census and other data, variations in scale, distance and duration of various types of migration, social relations of migrant populations with their home areas and their host communities, and expectations and valuation of migrants concerning rural and urban life. It also examines interrelations between levels of migration, labour supply, wage rates and unemployment in urban centres, the impact of different types of migration on the national economy and economic planning and governemnt measures and conflicting interests of the labour supplying and receiving countries. The introduction analyses the main economic and political factors and the socio-economic consequences and problems brought about by migrations in and between territories.
Author : Victoria van der Land
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315440149
The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration. Critiquing the assumption that environmental stress is the dominating migration driver, the author demonstrates the important role of individual aspirations and social processes, such as educational opportunities and the pull of urban lifestyles. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced picture of the environment-migration nexus, arguing that slow-onset environmental changes may actually be less important as drivers of migration in the Sahel than they are often depicted in the media and climate change literature. This is a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental sociology, migration and development studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004250390
Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending "African exodus" to Europe. Despite the increasing, albeit sensational, attention irregular migration attracts on both sides of the Mediterranean, little is known about what shapes and influences the lives of these Africans before, during, and after their “migratory projects.” By privileging migrants' narratives and drawing on evidence-based field research from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume demystifies and dislodges many common assumptions about the human ecology of irregular African migration to Europe, arguably one of the most widely debated, yet least understood, phenomenon of our time.
Author : Lamin O. Ceesay
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783960671251
West Africa’s patterns of migration in pre-colonial and early post-colonial times were predominantly internal and regional; from landlocked Sahelian countries to relatively prosperous mines, plantations and coastal cities. This was very significant in ensuring quality brain and skills circulation in the region. Out-migration to Europe, despite the numerous benefits that come along with it, remains a huge problem for the region and very worrisome to policy makers. As the previous significant brain and skills circulation that existed in the region has shifted to Europe, it paralysed its human and socioeconomic development efforts. On the other hand it is a huge and an unbearable burden on the social welfare system and job market of Europe. Considering the problematic and worrisome nature of unskilled, semi-skilled and professional youth migration, this study is set to search for its determinants. The findings are intended for a better and more informed policy formulation. Assuming that at the beginning of the 21st Century, West Africa’s migratory trends to Europe have changed from predominantly regular to alarmingly irregular and clandestine, this research also investigates the motivations behind this trend. The focus of this study is the migration flow from West Africa to Europe, using Ghana as a case study.
Author : Abdoulaye Kane,Todd Holzgrefe Leedy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003089
Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
Author : Richard Black,Jonathan Crush,Sally Peberdy,Savina Ammassari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074247753
The Southern Africa Migration Project (SAPM) launches its new series on migration and development. Migration has been an integral aspect of the labour markets across much of Africa for at least the last century, cutting across class and skill boundaries. It represents an important livelihood strategy for poor households, but is also characteristic of the better off, including many African elites. Understanding is slowly emerging of the potentially positive role that migration can play in reducing poverty and ?mobilising? the African diaspora in development. This first title in this series provides an overview of the complex political, economic and human development issues at stake around the migration phenomenon in the twenty-first century. It gives valuable factual and statistical data to inform debates on this contentious political topic. This publication is the product of collaboration between the Southern African Migration Project and the Centre for Globalization, Poverty and Migration at Sussex University. Subsequent editions are planned on HIV/AIDS, health, the brain-drain, and food security in Africa.
Author : Vusi Gumede,Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Serges Djoyou Kamga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004411227
This comparative book debates migration and regional integration in the two regional economic blocs, namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The book takes a historical and nuanced citizenship approach to integration by analysing regional integration from the perspective of non-state actors and how they negotiate various structures and institutions in their pursuit for life and livelihood in a contemporary context marked by mobility and economic fragmentation.
Author : Jonathan Baker,Tade Akin Aina
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9171063668
South Africa, by Christian M. Rogerson
Author : Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137479532
This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004271562
Religion, Ethnicity and Transnational Migration between West Africa and Europe focuses on the West African migrants’ presence in Europe and the way they negotiate religion and ethnicity in a new context. Special attention is given to the diversity of religious background of the migrants and to exploration of interreligious (especially Christian-Muslim) relations. These dimensions of transnational migration have not been widely researched, yet. After introducing the new African religious diaspora, the situation of the Senegalese, Ghanaian and Fulbe migrants – both Christian and Muslim – in France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland is analysed. The impact the migrants make on their communities of origin in Africa is also taken into account. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Martha Frederiks, Stanisław Grodź, Tilmann Heil, Monika Salzbrunn, José C.M. van Santen, Miriam Schader, Etienne Smith and Gina Gertrud Smith.