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Kinship Networks and International Migration in Nigeria.

This book gives a detailed, comprehensive and insightful account of Nigerians' international migration trajectories, drivers, processes and dynamics. The book is inspired by the orientation and conviction that, as developing nations, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the world struggle with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Akanle, Olayinka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • History and trajectories of contemporary international migrations in Nigeria
  • Kinship and return migration
  • Theoretical contextualization
  • Methodological imperatives of kinship and international migration in Nigeria
  • Kinship, first time migration and social class
  • Kinship norms and appropriation within migration cycle
  • Returnees' support system
  • Migrants' kinship construction
  • Ethnography of African proverbs in Nigerian international migration contextualities
  • Modelling kinship, support and migration
  • Concluding reflections.