{"product_id":"willing-migrants-francois-manchuelle-9780821412022","title":"Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighty-five percent of Black African migrants to France come from a single ethnic group in a single region of West Africa. The Soninke have the oldest tradition of labor migration within Africa and were also probably the first itinerant traders of West Africa; an important proportion continue to be merchants today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to France, \u003ci\u003eWilling Migrants\u003c\/i\u003e is based upon critical analysis of French precolonial and colonial records and oral interviews with Soninke migrants. François Manchuelle shows that these migrations were driven by a search for improved economic conditions and that these labor movements have a great deal in common with European and American migrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe empirical evidence runs sharply contrary to the theoretical arguments common in the Africanist literature that have stressed the role of the colonial state in forcing migration through coercive violence and taxation. Providing a vital link between African Studies and the study of labor migrations around the world, \u003ci\u003eWilling Migrants\u003c\/i\u003e marks a major advance in Africanist labor migration literature and should initiate new lines of historical inquiry and set off wide-ranging debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francois Manchuelle,François Manchuelle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821412027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821412022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.95d","brand":"Francois Manchuelle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086964437247,"sku":"9780821412022","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_881c09b5-fb5b-4001-95c1-395865a98d2f.jpg?v=1769097517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/willing-migrants-francois-manchuelle-9780821412022","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}