ISBN:
1282373838
,
9780203927328
,
9781282373839
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 401 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
African studies
DDC:
304.8096
Keywords:
Medical care
;
Medical personnel
;
Migration, Internal
;
Africa Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical, developmental, and cultural
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Language Clusters; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Migration Fantasies, Nightmarish Realities; Part I Migrations and Health Issues; Chapter Two Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora; Chapter Three Discourses on Health Risks and Anti-Racial Diversity in the Media Coverage of the Non-Ebola Panic; Chapter Four "Predatory Globalization?": The World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Trade in Services, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Five Searching the World: Following Three Graduating Classes of a Nigerian Medical SchoolChapter Six A Group of Twenty Nurses and the Pan African Struggle for Liberation; Part II Human Trafficking and Exploitation; Chapter Seven Trafficking of Young Women and Girls: A Case of "Au Pair" and Domestic Laborers in Tanzania; Chapter Eight Emerging Issues in the Trafficking of African Women for Prostitution; Chapter Nine Trafficking Contracts: Myth or Reality?: Re-Examination of Consent in Human Trafficking; Part III Migration and Education
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Ten School Migration: A Major Concern in Historically Disadvantaged Schools in South AfricaChapter Eleven Pushing and Pulling: Western Education's Impact on Women's Subjugation in Ghana; Part IV Refugees, Displacement, and Re-Settlement; Chapter Twelve Peoples Without Homes: Displacement and the Security Situation in Africa1; Chapter Thirteen Determinants of Ethiopian Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970-2000; Conclusion "Unknown Immigrant:" The Persistence of Migration Blues; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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