Nigerian Immigrants In The United States

Author : Ezekiel Umo Ette
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739170397

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Nigerian Immigrants in the United States by Ezekiel Umo Ette Pdf

Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues of settlement and adjustment of Nigerians in the United States. The literature is scanty about this group of immigrants and little is known about their motivations for moving to the United States and the issues that they face. The book therefore seeks to contribute to the immigration literature and knowledge base as well as document the African narrative showing the flight of Nigerians to the United States. The book further seeks to shine a light on the lives of these transplants as they settle into a new society. It describes those Nigerians who decided on their own to live permanently in the United States, reviewing the social circumstances and behaviors of immigrants from Nigeria, and noting the stressors that affect successful integration and adjustment. The book explores the factors that contribute to the adaptation and integration of Nigerian immigrants living in some metropolitan areas of the United States and asks: how do the immigrants themselves interpret their experiences in a new society? In an attempt to answer this question, others are generated such as: Who are these Nigerians that have left their homeland? What has been their experience and how has this experience shaped them and their understanding of the immigration process? Lastly, it asks what we can learn from this experience. Employing the study of this population through the method of phenomenology, Nigerian Immigrants in the United States leads the reader to understand the experience of being different in America from the immigrants' perspectives and to see the experience through their eyes. Those who work with Nigerian immigrants will find this book insightful and revealing.

Author : Ezekiel Umo Ette
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739170403

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Nigerian Immigrants in the United States by Ezekiel Umo Ette Pdf

Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues of settlement and adjustment of Nigerians in the United States. The literature is scanty about this group of immigrants and little is known about their motivations for moving to the United States and the issues that they face. The book therefore seeks to contribute to the immigration literature and knowledge base as well as document the African narrative showing the flight of Nigerians to the United States. The book further seeks to shine a light on the lives of these transplants as they settle into a new society. It describes those Nigerians who decided on their own to live permanently in the United States, reviewing the social circumstances and behaviors of immigrants from Nigeria, and noting the stressors that affect successful integration and adjustment. The book explores the factors that contribute to the adaptation and integration of Nigerian immigrants living in some metropolitan areas of the United States and asks: how do the immigrants themselves interpret their experiences in a new society? In an attempt to answer this question, others are generated such as: Who are these Nigerians that have left their homeland? What has been their experience and how has this experience shaped them and their understanding of the immigration process? Lastly, it asks what we can learn from this experience. Employing the study of this population through the method of phenomenology, Nigerian Immigrants in the United States leads the reader to understand the experience of being different in America from the immigrants' perspectives and to see the experience through their eyes. Those who work with Nigerian immigrants will find this book insightful and revealing.

Author : Vic Kovacs
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538322413

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Life as a Nigerian American by Vic Kovacs Pdf

As immigration becomes an increasingly important issue in the United States, this timely book empowers readers to learn about the lives of Nigerian immigrants who have made new homes in America. Readers will learn about critical moments in modern Nigerian history that provide context for current events in the United States and around the world. They'll explore the complex issues affecting Nigerian Americans today and see the vivid, valuable ways Nigerian and American culture meld and interact. Powerful photographs bring this important issue into sharp focus, while fact boxes highlight key points. Accessible and highly relevant, this thoughtful book handles complex topics with sensitivity and helps readers develop greater cultural awareness.

Author : Onoso Imoagene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520965881

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Beyond Expectations by Onoso Imoagene Pdf

In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of "black" identity that differs radically from African American and Black Caribbean notions of "black" in the United States and Britain. Instead of considering themselves in terms of their country of destination alone, second-generation Nigerians define themselves in complicated ways that balance racial status, a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity, a pan-African identity, and identification with fellow immigrants. Based on over 150 interviews, Beyond Expectations seeks to understand how race, ethnicity, and class shape identity and how globalization, transnationalism, and national context inform sense of self.

Author : Shila Bayor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : OCLC:1430599441

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The Experiences of Highly Educated Nigerian Immigrants in the United States by Shila Bayor Pdf

As the Child of Brain Drainers ( Highly educated immigrants that moved from a developing country to a developed country) and a soon to be highly educated African immigrant, I often ponder the effects of immigration on the families of those who immigrated as well as countries within the African continent. Oftentimes, African countries are perceived as stagnant places where progress may seem impossible because of corruption, poverty and their failing economies. Therefore, for an African to immigrate to a western country is not something unusual; this seems to be a common pattern. The narrative seems to be that if you have a chance to leave the continent, you should. It seems to be something so normal that we rarely question why people immigrate. The objective of this paper is to explore the push and pull factors of the emigration to the United States of highly educated Nigerian immigrants and their families, a subgroup of African immigrants. Push factors are the reasons why immigrants are leaving their countries of birth. Pull factors are the reasons why immigrants move to the receiving civilizations or the destination countries. This paper will also describe the experiences of highly educated (People with a bachelor's degree or more) Nigerian born citizens living in the United States, speak of the effects of the increasing immigration of African immigrants or the brain drain (Void created in developing countries when many highly educated and skilled people immigrate out), highlight some of the expectations of highly educated immigrants, and speak of the effects of the increasing immigration of African immigrants on Nigeria's brain drain.

Author : Onoso Imoagene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520292314

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Beyond Expectations by Onoso Imoagene Pdf

In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of "black" identity that differs radically from African American and Black Caribbean notions of "black" in the United States and Britain. Instead of considering themselves in terms of their country of destination alone, second-generation Nigerians define themselves in complicated ways that balance racial status, a diasporic Nigerian ethnicity, a pan-African identity, and identification with fellow immigrants. Based on over 150 interviews, Beyond Expectations seeks to understand how race, ethnicity, and class shape identity and how globalization, transnationalism, and national context inform sense of self.

Author : Marcellina Ndidi Oparaoji
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781503585119

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Raising an African Child in America: from the Perspective of an Immigrant Nigerian Mom by Marcellina Ndidi Oparaoji Pdf

Like other African-born immigrants, I came to the shores of America from Nigeria, West Africa, some twenty-plus years ago as a young adult, freshly married to my Nigerian immigrant spouse. All we knew was what we learnt from our parents and community, growing up. Except for what we read in books about the outside world, we had no idea what lay ahead surviving in another environment outside our Third World. Our parents had sent us forth to study some more in an environment different from what we were used to, in so many ways. We had to make success of this opportunity that was costing them so much. Immigrant Nigerians coming to America are then faced with questions of how to raise their children. Should their offsprings be raised as Nigerians, Americans or to help them benefit from both worlds, as Nigerian-Americans? Who decides, the parents, the children or the society? What will be the fate of the next generation to come?

Author : Emmanuel Tula
Publisher : Nigerian in America
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0979813603

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Nigerian in America by Emmanuel Tula Pdf

The author discusses his U.S. immigration visa experience from 1999-2006 in this volume that proclaims that blacks in America are not assets.

Author : Paul E. Udofia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African Americans
ISBN : IND:30000060934415

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Nigerians in the United States by Paul E. Udofia Pdf

Author : Mirka Honkanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260888

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World Englishes on the Web by Mirka Honkanen Pdf

World Englishes on the Web focuses on linguistic practices at the intersection of international migration and social media, examining the language repertoires of Nigerians living in the United States, and their negotiations of identity and authenticity on a Nigerian web forum. Based on a large corpus of informal, multilingual, interactive, online writing, this book describes how diasporic Nigerians employ African-American Vernacular English, Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, and ethnic Nigerian languages in an online community of practice. The project combines corpus linguistic methods—relying on a corpus management tool custom-made for web forum data—with ethnographically-informed qualitative analyses of morphosyntactic, lexical, and orthographic features, and immigrants’ language attitudes and ideologies. It is relevant particularly for linguists and other social scientists interested in World Englishes, the sociolinguistics of globalization and computer-mediated communication, corpus linguistics, and pidgin and creole languages

Author : Adejumoke Afolayan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Migration, Internal
ISBN : 9290685697

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Migration in Nigeria by Adejumoke Afolayan Pdf

Author : Jacob Olupona,Regina Gemignani
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814762400

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African Immigrant Religions in America by Jacob Olupona,Regina Gemignani Pdf

African immigration to North America has been rapidly increasing. Yet, little has been written about this significant group of immigrants and the particular religious traditions that they are transplanting on our shores, as scholars continue largely to focus instead on immigrants from Europe and Asia. African Immigrant Religions in America focuses on new understandings and insights concerning the presence and relevance of African immigrant religious communities in the United States. It explores the profound significance of religion in the lives of immigrants and the relevance of these growing communities for U.S. social life. It describes key social and historical aspects of African immigrant religion in the U.S. and builds a conceptual framework for theory and analysis. The volume broadens our understandings of the ways in which new immigration is changing the face of Christianity in the U.S. and adds needed breadth to the study of the black church, incorporating the experiences of African immigrant religious communities in America.

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030566425

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African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella O. Abidde Pdf

This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.

Author : Patricia Anekwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736369903

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High-Achieving Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States by Patricia Anekwe Pdf

High-Achieving Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States: Navigating Multi-Contexts to Success examined the academic experiences of children of Nigerian immigrants to determine how they make sense of their world in the United States. The first of its kind, the book documented how second-generation Nigerians navigate multiple identities and challenges to become successful in the United States.

Author : Isidore Okpewho,Nkiru Nzegwu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003362

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The New African Diaspora by Isidore Okpewho,Nkiru Nzegwu Pdf

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.