"Les mbengis"--migration, gender, and family : the moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants' remittances /

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This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called "bushfalling") and remittance flows to Cameroon. With the current dire economic state, Cameroonians increasingly aspire to go abroad to make a living. Migrants achieve this through a collective (family) strategy and with the hel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Atekmangoh, Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, [2017]
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
Temas:
Transnationalism.
Cameroonians > Foreign countries.
Emigrant remittances > Cameroon.
Transnationalisme.
Envois de fonds des émigrants > Cameroun.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Cameroonians > Foreign countries
Emigrant remittances
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Transnationalism
Cameroon > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Cameroon > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Cameroon
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Migration and remittances : an overview
  • 3. Cameroonian transnational migration and remittances : a pluri-local research agenda
  • 4. Contextual background : the socio-cultural, historical, geographical, and political features of Cameroon and Cameroonian migration
  • 5. Why Cameroonians migrate : the socio-cultural, moral, and economic
  • 6. How Cameroonians migrate
  • 7. Understanding marriage, birth and death practices in the context of Cameroonian migration and remittances
  • 8. "I am not a money-making machine" : on the moral economy of remittances
  • 9. Sorcery threats in migration and remittance flows
  • 10. Conclusion.

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