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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"African migration"”.
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"Building a comprehensive framework of African migration patterns: the case of migration between Senegal and Europe"
Migration theories, which guided prior research, have been predominantly based on static dichotomous categorizations. In particular most research has been guided by assumptions conceiving migration primarily as: 1) a one-off move from a departure country “A” to a destination country “B”; 2) …
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Whose voice prevails? Policy-making at the crossroads between security and development in EU-West African migration cooperation
This thesis adds to understanding of EU-African migration cooperation, forming an empirical study on the politics of policy-making between the EU and West African countries. It appraises the scope and limitations of EU external migration governance in Senegal and Ghana, and the participation of …
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Home away from home: a study of the Ewe unification in the United States
… Ewe identity among those in the contemporary African Diaspora in the United States. An important debate among African nationalists and academics argues that ethnic belonging is a response to colonialism instigated by Western-educated African elites for their own political gain. Based on my …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
… and shift to examine the phenomenon of West African migration to post-apartheid South Africa. The study aims to determine how immigrants negotiate language and cultural differences, how attempts to integrate into their new society shape or reshape their identities, the consequences of this …
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Examining the migration theory of Black Africans into South Africa: a decolonial perspective
… there is agreement concerning the acclaimed migration of the Africans across the Limpopo River into South Africa. This is done by determining, in an interwoven analytical manner, whether there is possible existing credible evidence that could be applied to examine the claim espoused by Sir …
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Entrepreneurship and Identity among a group of Ghanaian women in Durban (South Africa)
African migrant entrepreneurship is fast becoming an increasingly important part of discourses of African migration to South Africa. This field of study is new in South Africa, because African women’s transnational activities have been neglected until now in studies on African entrepreneurship in …
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Origins and Genetic Structure of the Garifuna Population of Central America
… to examine the genetic impact of forced human migrations to the Americas during the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The genesis of admixed populations was the result of this African migration and relocation, and this study focuses on the Garifuna peoples of Belize and their predecessors …
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Towards a history of a Senegalese brotherhood in Cape Town
… the Western Cape in the context of the general African migration to South Africa and of the historical Muslim presence in the area. Based-on individual interviews of members both of the Muridiyya and the Tijaniyya turuq, and on visits to the dahiras, zawiyas and workplaces of Mourides and …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
African migration to South Africa is not a recent phenomenon bu in recent history, dates back to about one hundred and fifty years when African men migrated from some southern African countries to work in the South African mines. During this period however, the apartheid regime restricted African …
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Single Mother, Migrant Domestic Workers: Exploring the coping experience of low-income Zimbabwean women raising their children in South Africa
… the norm as shown in international and Southern African migration literature on DWs. Due to financial troubles and social isolation associated with migrancy, single motherhood, and domestic work, their ability to cope with the burden of care is limited. This study is rooted in the theory that …
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Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of Sub-Saharan Identity
<p>“Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of a Sub-Saharan Identity” details and historicizes the interstitial area between French state acculturation policies and the lived experience of Afro-French residents from 1945-2018. The project uses oral histories from Black …
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The phylogenetics and evolution of Africa's Larks (Alaudidae)
… there is strong support for: (1) a southern African'radiation comprising Chersomanes, t h e L o n g - b i l l e d L a r k c o m p l e x (Certhilauda) a n d Ammomanes (Ammomanopsis) grayi ,with Alaemon allied to this radiation; and (2) a .Saharo-Sindian radiation comprising Ramphocoris …
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The phylogenetics and evolution of Africa's Larks (Alaudidae)
… there is strong support for: (1) a southern African'radiation comprising Chersomanes, t h e L o n g - b i l l e d L a r k c o m p l e x (Certhilauda) a n d Ammomanes (Ammomanopsis) grayi ,with Alaemon allied to this radiation; and (2) a .Saharo-Sindian radiation comprising Ramphocoris …