The New African Diaspora in North America Trends, Community Building, and Adaptation

, by Konadu-Agyemang, Kwadwo; Takyi, Baffour K.; Arthur, John A.; Abbott, Charles W.; Agbajoh-Laoye, G Oty; Amoako, Joe; Boate, Kwame Safo; Dodoo, F Nii-Amoo; Kwakye-Nuako, Kwasi; Lobo, Arun Peter; Musissi, Nakanyike B.; N'Diaye, Diana Baird; N'Diaye, Gorgui;

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ISBN: 9780739111512 | 0739111515
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/21/2006

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The New African Diaspora in North America brings together sociologists, social workers, geographers, economists, anthropologists and others to explore the African immigrant experience from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The contributors shed light on the factors behind the increasing wave in African immigration to the U.S. and Canada, the socio-economic characteristics of African immigrants, their spatial distribution, obstacles, and contributions.

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An overview of African immigration to U.S. and Canada	p. 2
Theoretical perspectives on African migration	p. 13
The contradictions of globalization : causes of contemporary African immigration to the United States of America	p. 29
Location and settlement patterns of African immigrants in the U.S. : demographics and spatial context	p. 50
African immigrants in Canada : trends, socio-demographic and spatial aspects	p. 69
Creating the vertical village : Senegalese traditions of immigration and transnational cultural life	p. 96
Ethnic identity, conflict, and diasporic constructions in the new world : the case of Asante in North America	p. 107
Still praisin' God in a new land : African immigrant Christianity in North America	p. 121
Nigerians in North America : new frontiers, old associations?	p. 141
Africans in the diaspora : black-white earnings differences among America's Africans	p. 168
Unintended consequences : liberalized U.S. immigration law and the African brain drain	p. 189
Knocking at the door : professional African immigrant and refugee women's experiences in the Toronto Labor Market	p. 209
Lifting the yoke of tradition : new African market-women diaspora : from Kaneshie, Accra to Harlem, New York	p. 235
English language acquisition and some pedagogical issues affecting the adaptation of African immigrant children	p. 257
Transnationalism among African immigrants in North America : the case of Ghanaians in Canada	p. 273
The new African diaspora in North America : policy implications	p. 287
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The New African Diaspora in North America Trends, Community Building, and Adaptation

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