West African Migrations and Globalization: Introduction

Abstract

This book, West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century is one of a two-part volume from papers presented at a symposium on transnational Africa and globalization organized by Olufemi Vaughan and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome in November 2008 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Drawing on the research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, the symposium explored how African migration to various parts of the world after the neoliberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed African states and their new transnational populations. Symposium participants analyzed how the interplay of a range of social, political, economic, and religious forces shaped the nature and form of transnationalization.KeywordsAfrican StateAfrican ImmigrantAfrican MigrationAfrican American ResidentSymposium ParticipantThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.