Black African Neo-Diaspora: Ghanaian Immigrant Experiences in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Area (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780739113523)

Despite recent large numbers of African immigrants to the United States facilitated by the emergence of globalized labor markets, African immigration to the United States remains an understudied phenomenon. This book provides an intensive study of the experiences of an African immigrant group (Ghanaians) in a smaller Midwestern urban location (the greater Cincinnati area). Black African Neo-Diaspora focuses on why Ghanaians have immigrated to the United States and their travel trajectories to Cincinnati. The author examines the internal social institutions that have emerged within the community to help with integration of members of this group into broader American society, as well as the ways in which Ghanaian immigrants enter the business arena and how their economic activities are changing urban America. Gender dynamics within immigrant families and the identity and socialization of second-generation immigrants are also explored.

Author: Ian E. a. Yeboah
ISBN-10: 0739113526
ISBN-13: 9780739113523
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2008
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.28w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 82