Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky : Migration, Identity, and Transnationality /

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"For centuries, immigration has been a topic of major concern in the US and has seen many significant shifts in policy, particularly within the last 150 years. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigration policy focused on restricting people originating from China. Then, af...

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Main Authors: Musoni, Francis (Author), Wilson, Jack, 1939- (Author), Wilson, Angene Hopkins (Author), Otieno, Iddah Aoko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transnationalism.
Refugees.
Oral history.
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration.
Africans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Histoire orale > Kentucky.
Transnationalisme.
Refugies > Kentucky > Entretiens.
Africains > Kentucky > Entretiens.
Oral history > Kentucky.
Refugees > Kentucky > Interviews.
Immigrants > Kentucky > Interviews.
Africans > Kentucky > Interviews.
Kentucky.
Africa.
Kentucky > Émigration et immigration.
Afrique > Émigration et immigration.
Kentucky > Emigration and immigration.
Africa > Emigration and immigration.
Interviews.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Nations represented by African immigrants in this book
  • Series foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: a historical and theoretical overview
  • Origins: where we are from
  • Opportunity: why and how we came
  • Struggles and successes
  • Connecting and contributing to two continents
  • Family and identity in the United States
  • Transnationality in the present and future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: suggested oral history interview segments for listening
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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