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Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory orders in the U.S.

Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory... This short essay, which is a preface to two full length articles by Reynolds and by Youngstedt, also in this volume, highlights important contrasts between two African migratory orders in cities in the United States, especially by examining economic conditions under which the two communities use global information technologies as tools of community cohesion and formation in diaspora. The central contrast is that Nigerien Hausa experiences rest at the margins of the formal economy or at their engagement within informal economies, while Nigerian Igbo peoples' experiences as brain drain professionals means that they are by nature of their migratory order integrated into the hegemonic core of global capital. Ultimately, our ethnographically‐based evidence poses two queries: how does space‐time compression operate differentially in the creation of new “global” communities, and secondly, how are significant groups of global actors emerging as the various strands of globalizing economies take new root within and across old ethnic and national and religious imaginaries of community? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory orders in the U.S.

REYNOLDS, RACHEL R.; YOUNGSTEDT, SCOTT M.
City & Society , Volume 16 (1) – Jun 1, 2004
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0893-0465
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10.1525/city.2004.16.1.5
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Abstract

This short essay, which is a preface to two full length articles by Reynolds and by Youngstedt, also in this volume, highlights important contrasts between two African migratory orders in cities in the United States, especially by examining economic conditions under which the two communities use global information technologies as tools of community cohesion and formation in diaspora. The central contrast is that Nigerien Hausa experiences rest at the margins of the formal economy or at their engagement within informal economies, while Nigerian Igbo peoples' experiences as brain drain professionals means that they are by nature of their migratory order integrated into the hegemonic core of global capital. Ultimately, our ethnographically‐based evidence poses two queries: how does space‐time compression operate differentially in the creation of new “global” communities, and secondly, how are significant groups of global actors emerging as the various strands of globalizing economies take new root within and across old ethnic and national and religious imaginaries of community?

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City & Society – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2004

References

  • Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    Friedman, Friedman
  • “We are not surviving, we are managing.” The Constitution of a Nigerian Diaspora along the Contours of the Global Economy
    Reynolds, Reynolds
  • The New Nigerien Hausa Diaspora in the U.S.:Surviving and Building Community on the Margins of the Global Economy
    Youngstedt, Youngstedt