Description |
1 online resource (xi, 278 pages). |
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Series |
African dynamics ; v. 14
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African dynamics ; v. 14.
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Contents |
Part 1. Introduction -- African roads to prosperity: people en route to socio-cultural and economic transformations / Akinyinka Akinyoade and Jan-Bart Gewald -- Roads to prosperity: social zones of transit / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri -- Roads to prosperity: reflections about a concept / Ton Dietz -- Part 2. Zones of transit -- Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a zone of transit in Barotseland: the development of a holding zone for migrants on the extreme frontier of the South African empire / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 'Trapped' in the north: southern migrants in northern Nigeria, 1908-1970s / Shehu Tijjani Yusuf -- Migration and competition around commercial spaces: the case of Songhay migrants at the Kumasi central market, Ghana 1930-1948 / Isaie Dougnon -- Resettlement in Zimbabwe: final destination from the zones of transition? / Dr Marleen Dekker -- Part 3. Zones of transference -- A romantic zone of transference? Botswana, Ghanaian migrants and marital social mobility / Rijk van Dijk -- Opportunities of the margin: the Kapsiki Smith and his road to prosperity / Walter van Beek -- Migrants' assessment of prospects in migration: a case study of conservancy labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana / Augustine Tanle, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko and Akinyinka Akinyoade -- Coercion or volition: making sense of the experiences of female victims of trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands / Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin and Akinyinka Akinyoade -- Part 4. Zones of transit and transference -- So be nya dagna? ('is someone injured?'): the evolution and use of tricycles in Tamale, northern Ghana / Samuel Ntewusu and Edward Nanbigne -- Nigerians in transit: the trader and the religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana / Akinyinka Akinyoade -- Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone / Amisah Zenabu Bakuri -- Kinshasa: a city of refugees / Meike de Goede. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Africans -- Migrations -- Economic aspects.
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Africans -- Migrations. |
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Immigrants -- Economic conditions.
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Immigrants -- Economic conditions. |
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Immigrants. |
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Immigrants -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants -- Social conditions. |
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Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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Africa. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Akinyoade, Akinyinka, editor, author.
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Gewald, Jan-Bart, editor, author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: African roads to prosperity. Boston : Brill, 2015 9789004301719 9004301712 (DLC) 2015035473 |
ISBN |
9004306056 (electronic book) |
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9789004306059 (electronic book) |
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9004301712 |
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9789004301719 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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