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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
African minorities in the New World.
International Standard Book Number
9780415960922
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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)