The migration experience in Africa

Abstract

In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons which surround and underpin why African populations are so mobile, this volume adopts an eclectic approach which illustrates the diversity of theoretical positions, as well as methodological and analytical trends. Examples of the great breadth and richness of empirical insights into human migrations in the contemporary african context are also given.

CONTENTS: Introduction / Tade Akin Aina & Jonathan Baker -- PART I CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS -- Migrations in Contemporary Africa: A Retrospective View / Samir Amin -- Internal Non-Metropolitian Migration and the Development Process in Africa / Tade Akin Aina -- Poverty, Enviromental Stress and Culture as Factors in African Migrations / Christer Krokfors -- Rural Households as Producers: Income Diversification and the Allocation of Resources / Hugh Emrys Evans & Gazala Pirzada -- PART II NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL THEMES -- Migration in Africa: An Overview / Aderanti Adepoju -- Forgotten Places, Abandoned Places: Migration Research Issues in South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson -- Migration and Recent Ecnomic And Enviromental Change in East Africa / W.T.S. Gould -- PART III THE RANGE OF MIGRATION EXPERIENCE -- The Small Town as a Retirement Centre / Margaret Peil -- The Dilemmas Facing Kenya School Leavers: Surviving in the City or a Force for Local Mobilization? / Anders Närman -- Pastoralist Migration to Small Towns in Africa / M.A. Mohamed Salih --The New Nomads: An overview of Involuntary Migration in Africa / Johnathan Bascom -- Part IV GENDER ISSUES -- Gender and Migration in Africa: South of Sahara / Josef Gugler and Gundrun Ludwar-Ense -- Women Migrants and Rural-Urban Linkages in South-Western Nigeria / Lillian Trager -- Women in Rural-Urban Migration in the Town of Iwo in Nigeria / Lai Olurode -- The Girls of Nyovuuru: Dagara Female Labour Migrations to Bobo-Dioulasso / Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo -- Non-Metropolitian Migration in Botswana with an Emphasis on Gender / Elvyn Jones-Dube.