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African Transnational Diasporas : Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship SeriesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137326577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African Transnational DiasporasLOC classification:
  • JV6001-9480
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 African Transnational Diasporas: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 Vintages and Patterns of Migration -- 3 The Construction and Negotiation of Diasporic Identities -- 4 'Do You Have a Visa?' Negotiating Respectable Masculinity in the Diaspora -- 5 The Diaspora and the Politics of Development -- 6 Religion in the Diaspora -- 7 Transnational Religious Ties and Integration: An Unhappy Couple? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland.
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Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 African Transnational Diasporas: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 Vintages and Patterns of Migration -- 3 The Construction and Negotiation of Diasporic Identities -- 4 'Do You Have a Visa?' Negotiating Respectable Masculinity in the Diaspora -- 5 The Diaspora and the Politics of Development -- 6 Religion in the Diaspora -- 7 Transnational Religious Ties and Integration: An Unhappy Couple? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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