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100 1 Nyamnjoh, Henrietta Mambo.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
/names/no2011082520
245 10 Bridging Mobilities :|bICTs Appropriation by Cameroonians
in South Africa and the Netherlands /|cHenrietta Mambo
Nyamnjoh.
264 1 Bamenda, Cameroon ;|aNetherlands :|bLangaa & African
Studies Centre,|c2014.
264 4 |c©2014
300 1 online resource
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504 Includes bibliographical references.
505 0 Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of
photographs, maps and diagrams; Acknowledgements; 1.
Introduction; Setting the scene; Mobility;
Transnationalism or ...?; Pinyin and Mankon as frontier
people; 'Tuyau' and 'lines': Social and kinship networks;
Society and technology; Habitual practice; Belonging and
home; Research questions and outline of the book; 2.
Methodological considerationsand data collection;
Introduction; Methodological reflections; Methods; Life
histories; Archival research; Conclusion; 3. Mobility and
migration at the crossroads:Mobile communities;
Introduction.
505 8 Mobility trends in Cameroon from colonial timesto the
current wave of migration to South AfricaMobile society;
Migration to South Africa and The Netherlands; Migration
governance or governance fragmentation?; Conclusion; 4. A
new form of madness in the village: The arrival of
information andcommunications technologies (ICTs);
Introduction; Overview of current debates on ICTs; Phoning
before the proliferation of mobile phones (1980s-1999);
Conceptualizing ICTs in Pinyin and Mankon; The Internet
and social media; Appropriation of ICTs before and
afterthe revolution of communication technologies.
505 8 Navigating the conundrums of the mobile phoneConclusion;
5. Networks and shifting relations: Social and kinship
networks andthe formation of a network society;
Introduction; Overview of network in the migration
process; Network intrigues; Studying networks; Networking
amongst mobile communities; Kinship relations and social
networks; Networking through marriage; Gender social and
kinship network relations; Negotiating ngunda: Social
networks inasylum/refugee circles in Cape Town;
Conclusion; 6. 'Going to the field': Pitching andmigrants'
economic activities; Introduction; Informal economy.
505 8 EncountersThe role of women in the informal economy;
Pitching: An overview of economic activities in Cape Town;
Mobility and social networking in the informal economy;
The notion of success and material wealth; Commodification
of relationship; Discussion and conclusion; 7. 'Your mami
and papa for this country na meeting': PIFAM and MACUDA as
agencyin a transnational world; Introduction; Overview and
characteristics of PIFAM and MACUDA; Overview of trends;
Associations as agents of development; Status and social
hierarchies in elite formation; Social life of PIFAM and
MACUDA.
505 8 Inter-cultural communication and associational
networkingExchange visits between associations;
Transnational/trans-virtual associational networks;
Conclusion; 8. A mobile community as a fortress:
Reinforcing the notion of belongingthrough 'life crisis';
Introduction; Understanding rituals and ceremonies; Birth;
Marriage; Death; ICTs as evidence of ritual autopsy;
Rituals as communication and the embodiment of society;
Conclusion; 9. 'I di beep na for beep, them di call':
Straddling relationships between the home and host
countryamongst kin and kith; Introduction.
520 This is a study on the creative appropriation of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by
mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong,
home and away. With a focus on Cameroonian migrants from
Pinyin and Mankon who are currently living in Cape Town
and the Netherlands, this book examines the workings of
the social fabric of mobile communities. It sheds light on
how these communities are crafting lives for themselves in
the host country and simultaneously linking up with the
home country thanks to advances in ICTs and road and air
transport. ICTs and mobilities have complemented social
relational interaction and provide migrants today with
opportunities to partake in cultural practices that
express their Pinyin-ness and Mankon-ness. Pinyin and
Mankon migrants are still as rooted in the past as they
are in the present. They were born into a community with
its own sense of home, moral ethos and cultural pride but
live in a context of accelerated ICTs and mobility that is
fast changing the way they live their lives. Drawing on
this detailed ethnographic case study and related
literature, Henrietta Nyamnjoh argues that while ICTs
continue to enhance mobility for those who move and for
those who stay put, they have become inextricably linked
in forging networks and reconfiguring existing ones.
Contrary to earlier studies that predicted radical social
change and the passing of traditional societies in the
face of new technologies, ICTs have been appropriated to
enhance the workings of existing social relations and ways
of life while simultaneously pointing to new directions in
ever more creative and innovative ways.
588 0 Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed
January 21, 2014).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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650 0 Immigrants|zNetherlands.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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655 4 Electronic books.
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