“A” Survey on Migration Policies in West Africa
Author: Alexandre Devillard
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9783902880369
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The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
Author: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-06-12
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 0191645877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees' needs and rights. This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world. The 52 state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in universities, research centres, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations, provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today. The chapters vividly illustrate the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.
Urbanization and Migration in West Africa
Author: Hilda Kuper
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-13
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0520310403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Bush Bound
Author: Paolo Gaibazzi
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1782387803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Migration in West Africa
Author: Kunniparampil Curien Zachariah
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A descriptive study of international, internal and rural-urban migration in nine West African countries: Togo, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Mali and Senegal.
Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa
Author: Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1137479531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
Modern Migrations in Western Africa
Author: Samir Amin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1351044052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with studies of migration from census and other data, variations in scale, distance and duration of various types of migration, social relations of migrant populations with their home areas and their host communities, and expectations and valuation of migrants concerning rural and urban life. It also examines interrelations between levels of migration, labour supply, wage rates and unemployment in urban centres, the impact of different types of migration on the national economy and economic planning and governemnt measures and conflicting interests of the labour supplying and receiving countries. The introduction analyses the main economic and political factors and the socio-economic consequences and problems brought about by migrations in and between territories.
West African Migrations
Author: M. Okome
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1137012005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.
Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel
Author: Victoria van der Land
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1315440148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration. Critiquing the assumption that environmental stress is the dominating migration driver, the author demonstrates the important role of individual aspirations and social processes, such as educational opportunities and the pull of urban lifestyles. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced picture of the environment-migration nexus, arguing that slow-onset environmental changes may actually be less important as drivers of migration in the Sahel than they are often depicted in the media and climate change literature. This is a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental sociology, migration and development studies.
African Migrations
Author: Abdoulaye Kane
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0253003083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
