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Author Falola, Toyin

Title Trans-Atlantic Migration : the Paradoxes of Exile
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Series African Studies
African Studies
Contents Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Prospero's Ripples, Caliban's Burden; Part I Paradoxes of (Im)migration and Exile; Chapter Two Paradoxes of Immigrant Incorporation: High Achievement and Perceptions of Discrimination by Nigerians in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (USA); Chapter Three Nigerian Exiles, Democratic Struggles and the Notion of Sacrifice: Interspatial Activism and the Proactive Discourses of Liberation; Chapter Four Immigrants' Pilgrimage and Imaginations: The Cinematic Portrayals of African Immigrants in Movies
Summary This book contrasts voluntary labor and political migration with the involuntary diaspora by focusing on the paradoxes of migration, exile, and survival of African immigrants in the New World
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Subject African diaspora -- Congresses
Africans -- Foreign countries -- Congresses
Africans -- Migrations -- Congresses
Immigrants -- Africa -- Congresses
Migration, Internal -- Africa -- Congresses
African diaspora
Africans -- Migrations
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Migration, Internal
SUBJECT Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
Subject Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Afolabi, Niyi
ISBN 9780203933831
0203933834
128106422X
9781281064226