Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Paradoxes of Exile (African Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415542499 ISBN 13: 9780415542494

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World―mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa during slavery. Along with this sense of freedom and voluntary migration comes a paradox―that of living in two worlds and negotiating the pleasures and agonies that come with living in exile. For the new African immigrant, the primary factor motivating migration is the desire for a better life whether fleeing political persecution, economic crisis, refugee crisis, or a combination thereof. The overall consequences include displacement, alienation, and the not so enchanting reality of exile. In its encompassing structure and multivalent perspectives, Trans-Atlantic Migration sets in motion the shifting theoretical and pragmatic verity that the new African diaspora and transatlantic migrations are paths laden with paradoxes that only time, negotiations, compromises, and sense of identities can ultimately resolve.

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Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415542499
• ISBN 13: 9780415542494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Falola Toyin, Afolabi Niyi