Introduction: Voluntarily singing the Lord's song ... / Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi -- Nationalist myth-making, cultural identity, and nation building; African minorities in the U.S. and Latin America / Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o -- African immigrants' experiences in urban America: religion and the construction of social identity in St. Louis / Attah Anthony Agbail -- Ethnography of religion and spirituality among St. Louisan African immigrants / Attah Anthony Agbail -- 'Born in the USA': dislocation, disrupted kinship networks, and the transformative power of music and dance in African immigrant baby naming ceremonies / Sherri Canon -- A viagem da minha vida--the voyage of my life: identifying formation and resettlement among Angolan women of color in Toronto / Robert A. Kennedy -- The making of a modern diaspora: the resettlement process of the Somali Bantu refugees in the United States / Omar A. Eno and Mogamed Eno -- Voluntary trans-Atlantic migration: the Nigerians' attitude to the American visa lottery / Elizabeth Augustus and Preston Augustus -- Managing the migration of health-care workers toward the transfer of knowledge, skill and professionalism / Oladapo Augustus -- African immigrants' families and the American educational system / Cecilia S. OBeng -- The new African diaspora waves: shifting diversity of American culture.
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This book discusses the minority status of African immigrants in the New World by revisiting the concept of a 'new' African diaspora and its multiple implications for citizenship and immigration policy.
African minorities in the New World.
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African diaspora.
Africans-- America-- Ethnic identity.
Africans-- America-- Social conditions.
Blacks-- America-- Social conditions.
Citizenship-- America.
Immigrants-- America-- Social conditions.
Refugees-- Government policy-- America.
African diaspora.
Africans-- Social conditions.
Auswanderung
Blacks-- Social conditions.
Citizenship.
Einwanderung
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)