Adjustment of Migrants in an African City
Author | : Adebisi Olusoga Otudeko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adebisi Olusoga Otudeko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adebisi Olusoga Otudeko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Ibadan (Nigeria) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Baker |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789171063663 |
South Africa, by Christian M. Rogerson
Author | : Deborah Helen Potts |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1847010237 |
The World Bank insists that the urban share of sub-Saharan Africa's population is rapidly increasing - this study shows that in many countries this is no longer true as migration strategies have adapted in response to economic andpolitical change. Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of decliningurban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia) and Zimbabwe: University of Cape Town Press (PB)
Author | : Caroline Melly |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022648906X |
In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal—a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities to do so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks—physical and institutional—affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who attempt, sometimes with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.
Author | : Bruce Whitehouse |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253000750 |
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1993-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309049423 |
This overview includes chapters on child mortality, adult mortality, fertility, proximate determinants, marriage, internal migration, international migration, and the demographic impact of AIDS.
Author | : Karin Barber |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2003-03-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780253216175 |
Since the 1980s, Yoruba popular theatre has virtually disappeared due to radio, TV and other mass media in Nigeria. This is the personal account of a theatre worker on tour with the Oyin Adejobi Company. Drawing on archives, interviews and transcribed plays, she describes a successful Yoruba drama.
Author | : Daniel Joseph Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : P. Jenkins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137380179 |
Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.