ISBN:
978-1-137-47952-5
,
978-1-137-47954-9/epub
,
978-1-137-47953-2/pdf
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XI, 127 S.
Serie:
Palgrave Pivot
DDC:
304.80966
Schlagwort(e):
Westafrika Yoruba
;
Migration
;
Regionalismus
;
Integration
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Netzwerkanalyse
;
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Kurzfassung:
Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa explores how different immigration policies and multiple monetary zones have hindered sustainable cross-border socio-economic interactions in West Africa. Since previous empirical efforts have largely neglected how the migration process is sustained at "home" and "abroad", Adeniran examines the significance of cross-border networking in the process of identity integration within the ECOWAS sub-region. Studying the informal cross-border interactions along the Nigerian-Ivorian migratory corridor by the Ejigbo-Yoruba, Adeniran believes these migrants have persistently enabled the processes of regional integration and inter-community development within the sub-region. Their interactions have accounted for the harmonization of distinctive dual identities within the transnational social space, and suggest that related cross-border networking pattern should be promoted in order to attain the goal of a borderless ECOWAS sub-region.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. Why a Borderless ECOWAS? 2. Social Organization of Mobility 3. Migration Network, Determinants, and Patterns 4. The Process of Identity Integration 5. Identity Dualism and Regional Integration 6. Uncensored Space and Regional Development 7. Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Frameworks for Borderless ECOWAS 8. Concluding Comments
