Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Deborah Helen Potts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847010237

Download Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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)

Bottleneck

Bottleneck
Author: Caroline Melly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022648906X

Download Bottleneck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Urbanization and Migration in West Africa

Urbanization and Migration in West Africa
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1965
Genre: Migration, Internal
ISBN:

Download Urbanization and Migration in West Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Bottleneck

Bottleneck
Author: Caroline Melly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 022648890X

Download Bottleneck Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The age of globalization is generally understood as involving the massive movement of people and goods on a scale never before seen in human history. In Mobile Fixations, anthropologist Caroline Melly examines mobility as a cultural value in urban Senegal, paying close attention to the points at which the ideal of mobility meets obstructive realities. Specifically, she conceptualizes embouteillage - the traffic bottleneck - as a symbol for the fraught attempts of Dakar's citizens to construct their own mobile futures. Through case studies of investment agencies, cab companies, investors, state workers, and return migrants, Melly pays keen attention to the chronic uncertainty brought on by structural adjustment and how transnational networks might stand as models of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary Senegalese society. Melly also guides us beyond West Africa's shores, to the rickety, Europe-bound fishing boats upon which so many immigrants embark to see a different kind of 'mobile future' abroad, one that too often ends in tragedy. In so doing, the author shows how the consequences of local transformations reach well beyond a country's or even a continent's borders. Mobile Fixations is an engaging and accessible work of cultural anthropology, one that will be an invaluable read for anyone interested in contemporary African society and the global implications of urban development.

Pathways and Destinations

Pathways and Destinations
Author: Tamar Eve Mott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2006
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

Download Pathways and Destinations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Abstract: Migration to the US is no longer dominated by outflows from Europe to a handful of settler societies, and the number and variety of sending regions has increased, with growth in movements from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In contrast to other movements, African movements have not been considered in detail. Further, while there has also been an increasing trend toward movement, including secondary movement, to smaller-sized cities, research on destinations has largely neglected them. Finally, while many known mechanisms by which immigrants have arrived in the US and, in particular, cities have been written about extensively, migration models have totally neglected the role of numerous immigrant intermediaries, especially voluntary resettlement agencies (VOLAGs). This dissertation addresses these gaps in migration research. The overriding questions of this dissertation research are the following: What factors affect the choice of destination locations of refugees, and what factors influence the adjustment of refugees once they have arrived in the US? Analysis of secondary data provides evidence that refugee populations are being resettled by VOLAGs to locations that have not historically received foreign-born -- e.g., North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Vermont, Kentucky, and Missouri. Analysis of more recent flows of African refugees to the US shows that they are being resettled, and moving on their own, as secondary migrants to states like Minnesota and Ohio; and not to the historically more common states, like California and Florida. Qualitative analysis of interviews with refugees and agency representatives in Columbus, Ohio and Providence, Rhode Island, demonstrates that VOLAGs clearly have an impact on the location patterns of refugees. With regard to adjustment, in the case of refugees, the role of VOLAGs and policy in the US must be considered within the process of adjustment. Refugees are a unique group, as contextual, controllable, forces may play a role in their adjustment. VOLAGs can counteract some of the barriers to adjustment that refugees face. Money and social services allocated to refugees, in addition to the locations where VOLAGs choose to "place" refugees impact in what way, and how fast adjustment occurs.

Migrants and Strangers in an African City

Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Author: Bruce Whitehouse
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0253000750

Download Migrants and Strangers in an African City Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

The Generation of Plays

The Generation of Plays
Author: Karin Barber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2003-03-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780253216175

Download The Generation of Plays Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.