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Title: African Diaspora Identities: Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration

Citation Type: Book, Whole

Publication Year: 2010

ISBN: 0739146394

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Abstract: African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country-specific cultures and normative belief systems. He illuminates the fact that these transnational migrant identities are an amalgamation of multiple identities formed in varied social transnational se. Constructing African immigrant identies in transnational domains -- Situating Africa's brain drain in global migrations -- Transnational African immigrant lives and identities -- Rationalizing the meanings of African migrations -- Gendering the diaspora identities of second-generation African immigrant girls -- African immigrants and native-born blacks: discourses on finding common ground -- Imagining the future of African immigrant identities in migration studies.

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Authors: Arthur, John A.

Publisher: Lexington Books

Publisher Location: Lanham, MD

Pages: 302

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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