New African Diasporas - 9780415309493

Taylor & Francis

Gathers together work on more recent waves of immigration - concentrating particularly on the last twenty years - and goes beyond the United States to look at Diaspora settlement in the UK and Northern Europe too. It also looks at a range of > \nThe extensive literature relating to the African diaspora has tended to concentrate on the descendants of those who left Africa as part of the slave trade to North America. This important new book gathers together work on more recent waves of African migration from some of the most exciting thinkers on the contemporary diaspora. Concentrating particularly on the last 20 years, the contributions look to the United States and beyond to diaspora settlement in the UK and Northern Europe. New African Diasporas looks at a range of different types of diaspora - legal and illegal, professional and low-skilled, asylum seekers and 'economic migrants' - and includes chapters on diasporic communities originating in Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic o.