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  • Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration

    Evidence from Ghana

    by John A. Arthur ...
    Series series African Migration and Diaspora Series
    This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration is now synonymous with social mobility and self-improvement. It has been found that existing class and ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe

    The Ghanaian Experience

    by John A. Arthur ...
    Series series Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
    This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Migration and Development in Africa

    Trends, Challenges, and Policy Implications

    by Theophilus Kwabena Abutima, Kwadwo Owusu, Rabiu K. B. Asante, Leander Kandilige, Jane Mwanji, Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei, Joris Schapendonk, Danielle Minteu Kadje, Peter Bilson Obour, Omon Merry Osiki, Joseph K. Teye, Sylvia Esther Gyan ...
    Series series African Migration and Diaspora Series
    There are only a few studies that analyze the complex relationship between Migration and development in Africa. The book presents the main trends in African migration since the last two decades. It analyzes the major migration trends, the various migration hubs across the continent and the underlying factors explaining the changing nature of migration across the continent. A few of the chapters in ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Africans in Global Migration

    Searching for Promised Lands

    by Janet Awokoya, Nemata Blyden, Bassirou Tidjani, Msia Kibona Clark, Hilary Chala Kowino, Tatenda T. Mambo, Mary Johnson Osirim, Ian Yeboah, Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome ...
    Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • African Diaspora Identities

    Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration

    by John A. Arthur ...
    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 ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

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  • Peace and Conflict in Africa

    Edited by David Francis ...
    Nowhere in the world is the demand for peace more prominent and challenging than in Africa. From state collapse and anarchy in Somalia to protracted wars and rampant corruption in the Congo; from bloody civil wars and extreme poverty in Sierra Leone to humanitarian crisis and authoritarianism in Sudan, the continent is the focus of growing political and media attention.This book presents the first ... Read more

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  • Wars, Guns, and Votes

    Democracy in Dangerous Places

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    An expert on developing nations offers "accessible and very sensible analysis" of America's promotion of democracy abroad—and why it often fails ( Publishers Weekly).Oxford economist Paul Collier gives an eye-opening assessment of the corruption and political violence that plague developing nations across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. While many of these governments meet America's standards for ... Read more

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  • The Age of Consent

    by George Monbiot ...
    A manifesto for a new world order.Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals – political, democratic, economic, environmental – that might affect the cultural ... Read more

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  • When States Fail

    Causes and Consequences

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg ...
    Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and ... Read more

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  • Humanitarianism in Question

    Politics, Power, Ethics

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss ...
    Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of ... Read more

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    A Plan for a Nation Gone Astray

    by Hlumelo Biko ...
    Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South ... Read more

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