The Global Ethiopian Diaspora

Author : Shimelis Bonsa Gulema,Hewan Girma,Mulugeta F. Dinbabo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9781648250880

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The Global Ethiopian Diaspora by Shimelis Bonsa Gulema,Hewan Girma,Mulugeta F. Dinbabo Pdf

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience of Ethiopians within and beyond Africa. Ethiopia is one of the largest African sources of transnational migrants, with an estimated two to three million Ethiopians living outside of the home country. This edited collection provides a critical examination of the temporal, spatial, and thematic dimensions of Ethiopian migration, mapping out its scale, scope, and destinations. The thirteen essays here (plus an introduction and conclusion by the volume's editors) offer a discussion of the state of knowledge and current debates on the diaspora and suggest alternative frameworks for interrogating and understanding the Ethiopian migration and diasporic experiences. Key time periods and literatures are identified to study Ethiopian transnational migration, moving from a survey of patterns in pre-twentieth century Ethiopia and on to changing trajectories in the imperial period and under succeeding postrevolutionary regimes. Geographically, the contour of the Ethiopian diaspora is outlined, identifying key destinations and patterns of return. In particular, the volume seeks to correct the traditional tendency to conflate the Ethiopian diaspora with North America and Europe by including areas that have long been marginalized, such as inter-Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The objective is not to construct a simple cartography of migration but a critical analysis of national and global issues, policies, trends, and processes that shape the roots and routes of the migration dynamic. Thematically, this book aims to challenge the existing boundaries of Ethiopian migration and diaspora studies and raise important concerns about representation, ghettoization, and perpetuation of inequalities. Edited by Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Hewan Girma, and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo. Contributors: Alpha Abebe; Amsale Alemu; Tekalign Ayalew; Kassaye Berhanu-MacDonald; Elizabeth Chacko; Marina de Re> Mulugeta F. Dinbabo; Peter H. Gebre; Hewan Girma; Mary Goitom; Shimelis Bonsa Gulema; Tesfaye Semela; Nassise Solomon; and Fitsum R. Tedla.

Author : Mulugeta Bezabih Mekonnen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ethiopians
ISBN : 9783643910288

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Transnational Migration-Development Nexus by Mulugeta Bezabih Mekonnen Pdf

With a tenfold increase in remittance flows over the last 25 years, the diaspora's role in the development efforts of the global South has gained broader interest. Besides financial remittances, flows of skills and social remittances have gained attention, particularly the relevance of diaspora associations as drivers of development. This book explores the engagement of Ethiopian diaspora associations in Germany for their home country's development. It investigates the policies of the Ethiopian and Germany governments, and the opportunities the policies generate for diaspora engagement efforts.

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351985598

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Ethiopians in an Age of Migration by Fassil Demissie Pdf

The migration of Ethiopians across international borders is a recent phenomenon because of the limited integration of the country and society to the global economy. Since it was never colonized – aside from the Italian occupation of 1936-1941 – Ethiopia’s economy and society were not directly impacted by the ebb and flow of the global economy, and thus never generated international migration. Beginning in the 1970s, due to factors such as famine, rural poverty, civil war, and political repression, an unprecedented number of Ethiopian migrants began to leave their country in search of better, more secure lives. Today, this diaspora constitutes a distinctive community dispersed across the world, but bound by a common feeling of collectiveness and a shared history of the homeland. The contributors to this volume draw their work from a wide variety of interdisciplinary fields and provide new critical insight on Ethiopian migrants and their diaspora communities. What has emerged from these scholarly works is the recognition that the Ethiopian diaspora – although separated by oceans and nations, by politics, ethnicity, class, gender and age – are carving out a social and material world born out of their particular circumstances both "here" and "there". This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal.

Author : Kay Kaufman Shelemay,Steven Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 159907107X

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Creating the Ethiopian Diaspora by Kay Kaufman Shelemay,Steven Kaplan Pdf

Author : Liisa Laakso,Petri Hautaniemi
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783601004

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Diasporas, Development and Peacemaking in the Horn of Africa by Liisa Laakso,Petri Hautaniemi Pdf

Exiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development in their homelands. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents. This important intervention, written by scholars working at the cutting edge of diaspora and conflict, challenges the conventional wisdom that diaspora are all too often warmongers, their time abroad causing them to become more militant in their engagement with local affairs. Rather, they can and should be a force for good in bringing peace to their home countries. Featuring in-depth case studies from the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Ethiopia, this volume presents an essential rethinking of a key issue in African politics and development.

Author : Jack Mangala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319500539

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Africa and its Global Diaspora by Jack Mangala Pdf

The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political clout, countries of origin in Africa have sought to engage their citizens living abroad. Over the past decade, the role of diaspora in the homeland development has become a core tenet of national strategies and policies. Against the backdrop of expanding globalization and deepening regional integration, the book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent as states seek to extend rights to and extract obligations from their global citizens.

Author : Sonia Plaza,Dilip Ratha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821382585

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Diaspora for Development in Africa by Sonia Plaza,Dilip Ratha Pdf

The diaspora of developing countries can be a potent force for development, through remittances, but more importantly, through promotion of trade, investment, knowledge and technology transfers. The book aims to consolidate research and evidence on these issues with a view to formulating policies in both sending and receiving countries.

Author : Elizabeth Harney,Jeff Donaldson,Achamyeleh Debela,Kinsey Katchka,National Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059983604

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Ethiopian Passages by Elizabeth Harney,Jeff Donaldson,Achamyeleh Debela,Kinsey Katchka,National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Pdf

This study introduces audiences to the importance of the arts in the African diaspora and tells of the important histories of migration and the myriad negotiations of artistic, cultural, group and personal identities among African artists in the diaspora.

Author : Onyebadi, Uche T.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522550808

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Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas by Onyebadi, Uche T. Pdf

Members of diasporic populations often have a unique, dual persona consisting of one’s migrant role as a permanent or transient member of a new country and one’s role as a citizen of one’s home country. Like all diaspora, the African diaspora is further composed of sub-groups of people of a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, such that there is a need for studies that properly encompass and address the African diaspora across a multitude of fields and pedagogies, including architecture, education, and business. Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas is a pivotal reference source that explores the philosophical and epistemological issues regarding the African diaspora identity and navigates these individuals’ opportunities for professional and academic growth. Featuring coverage on a wide range of topics such as higher education, cultural engagement, and xenophobia, this publication is ideally designed for sociologists, anthropologists, humanities scholars, political scientists, cultural studies academicians, university board members, researchers, and students.

Author : Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226810027

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Sing and Sing On by Kay Kaufman Shelemay Pdf

"In Sentinel Musicians of the Ethiopian American Diaspora, Kay Kaufman Shelemay shares more than forty years of research among Ethiopian musicians in the midst of a widespread and evolving diaspora. Beginning on the eve of the Ethiopian revolution in 1974 all the way up to the present day, Shelemay follows musicians as some leave Ethiopia for the US, setting up essential networks of support in cities such as New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. Throughout this profound transition, Shelemay shows how Ethiopian musicians serve a critical function in social and political life by both safeguarding community identity and challenging authority within Ethiopian society. She coins the term "sentinel musicians" to express musicians' double capacity to guard culture and guide it through periods of change, transforming the world around them under political pressures and during times of extreme social stress. While musicians held this role in Ethiopian culture long before the revolution began, it has taken on new meanings and contours in the Ethiopian diaspora. Some sentinel musicians have quite literally led the way as they migrated to new locales, establishing transnational networks, founding new institutions, and undertaking numerous initiatives in community building. Ultimately, Shelemay shows that musicians are uniquely positioned to serve this sentinel role as guardians and challengers of cultural heritage"--

Author : Michael J. Gennaro,Brian M. McGowan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000779356

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Sport and Protest in the Black Atlantic by Michael J. Gennaro,Brian M. McGowan Pdf

This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic. It brings together innovative scholarship on African, African-American, Afro-European, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean sports in a manner that speaks effectively to the diversity of the African diaspora, its history, and culture. The book explores the history of sports, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, rugby, cricket, and track-and-field athletics to show athlete and fan protests in sport intersected with discourses of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and the idea of progress. It shows how sport in the African diaspora is a crucially important lens through which to understand the challenges, changes, and continuities of Black Atlantic history, the history of protest, and racism. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, social and cultural history, post-imperial history and decolonization, or the sociology of sport, race, and political protest.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781648895159

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Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 2. by Uche Onyebadi Pdf

'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

Author : Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849046183

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Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia by Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet Pdf

When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea) are largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature that is partial or propagandist. Moreover there have been few attempts to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the country's recent history, politics and culture that goes beyond the usual guidebook fare. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia seeks to do just that, presenting a measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the main features of this unique country, now building on the foundations of a magical and tumultuous past as it struggles to emerge in the modern world on its own terms.

Author : The Migration Conference Team
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781801352321

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The Migration Conference 2023 Book of Abstracts by The Migration Conference Team Pdf

The Migration Conference 2023 Book of Abstracts

Author : Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara,Okoth Fred Mudhai,Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134109135

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Online Journalism in Africa by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara,Okoth Fred Mudhai,Jason Whittaker Pdf

Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comprehensive research tool that can both stand the test of time as well as offer researchers (particularly those in the economically developed Global North) models for cross-cultural comparative research. The essays here deploy either a wide range of evidence or adopt a case-study approach to engage with contemporary developments in African online journalism. This book thus makes up for the gap in cross-cultural studies that seek to understand online journalism in all its complexities.