Globalization and Transnational Migrations

Reviews / Votes

"Taking views from the dimly-lit basement of an allegedly 'flattened' world, this book provides diverse - and sometimes surprising - perspectives on the experience of Africa and Africans in the age of globalization. It covers the experience of Africans as migrants to the North as well as in other African countries; it studies refugees and highly-qualified migrants alike. While taking seriously the analysis of socio-economic and policy dimensions of African migration, this book goes beyond it and explores aspects of the wider cultural impact of globalization on Africa and Africans. Examples extend from changes in gender stereotypes to the literary expression of the diaspora experience. Joining together a diversity of views and perspectives, this book provides a remarkable example of fruitful collaboration between African and African diaspora academics."- Axel Harneit-Sievers, Director, East & Horn of Africa Office, Heinrich Boell Stiftung"This is an important collection of essays by an impressive team of scholars who interrogate the meanings and implications of the processes of globalization for the continent and its peoples. Focusing on both transnational migrations and local transformations wrought by globalization, its dynamics as a historical process of growing interconnectedness and an ideological project of neoliberal capitalism, the authors offer fresh insights into the exceedingly complex subject of Africa's globalization. With admirable theoretical sophistication and ample empirical data, they probe, expand, and enrich our understanding of African migrations and new diaspora formations, how these developments are affecting the constructions of and contestations over the identities and notions of citizenship, nationality, race, culture, ethnicity, gender, and class. " - Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; President, African Studies Association"Globalization and Transitional Migrations provides a road map into the complex world of globalization by examining the etiology of its making, and because it is conceived and written mostly by African scholars in Africa, and African scholars who have settled in the West, there is an effect of deep intimacy, akin to eavesdropping on a conversation among family members... The book questions the necessity and investigates the sufficiency of globalization in relation to African living... It helps us to understand better the balance sheet of globalization in Africa by providing new structures and new perspectives with which to think about our world and our role in it." - Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang, Director, Center for International Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana