| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Centering gender in African regional migration -- Passage from the savannah grasslands of Africa to America -- Gender and forced migration : rebuilding shattered lives -- Gender and transnational Black immigrant identities -- Gender, migration, and work -- Rethreading fertility decisions in new settings |
| Summary |
African Women Immigrants in the United States depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
West Africans -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Africa, Western -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0230623913 (electronic bk.) |
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1349380695 |
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9780230623910 (electronic bk.) |
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9781349380695 |
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