Trans-Atlantic Migration: The Paradoxes of Exile

by Niyi Afolabi and Toyin Falola

Book Overview

This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World-mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa during slavery. Along with this sense of freedom and voluntary migration comes a paradox-that of living in two worlds and negotiating the pleasures and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415542499
• ISBN13: 9780415542494
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"