African migrations: patterns and perspectives

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Acknowledgements Introduction: African Patterns of Migration in a Global Era: New Perspectives Abdoulaye Kane and Todd H. Leedy Part I. Psychological, Socio-cultural and Political Dimensions of African Migration 1. Overcoming the Economistic Fallacy: Social Determinants of Voluntary Migration from the Sahel to the Congo Basin Bruce Whitehouse 2. Migration as Coping with Risk: African Migrants' Conception of Being far from Home and States' Policy of Barriers Isaie Dougnon 3. Navigating Diaspora: The Precarious Depths of the Italian Immigration Crisis Donald Carter 4. Historic Changes Underway in African Migration Policies: From Muddling Through to Organized Brain Circulation Rubin Patterson Part II. Translocal and Transnational Connections: Between Belonging and Exclusion 5. Belonging amidst Shifting Sands: Insertion, Self-exclusion, and the Remaking of African Urbanism Loren Landau 6. Securing Wealth, Managing Social Relations: Rural-urban Migration and the Moral Politics of Reciprocity, Gender, and Belonging in Neoliberal Tanzania Hansjoerg Dilger 7. Voluntary and Involuntary Homebodies: Adaptations and Lived Experiences of Hausa Left Behind in Niamey, Niger Scott Youngstedt 8. Strangers are like the Mist: Language in the Push and Pull of the African Diaspora Paul Stoller 9. Towards a Christian Disneyland? Negotiating Space and Identity in the New African Religious Diaspora Afe Adogame 10. Somali Assistance Networks: the Social Dynamics of Sending Remittances Cindy Horst Part III. Feminization of Migration and the Appearance of Diasporic Identities 11. The Feminization of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives Jane Freedman 12. Migration as Factor of Cultural Change Abroad and at Home: Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou 13. What the General of Amadou Bamba saw in New York City: Gendered Displays of Devotion among Migrants of the Senegalese Murid Tariqa Beth A. Buggenhagen 14. Towards Understanding a Culture of Migration among 'Elite' African Youth: Educational Capital and the Future of the Igbo Diaspora Rachel R. Reynolds Contributors Index