The Human Cost of African Migrations [Hardcover]

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing studies have emphasized economic motivation as the primary factor triggering African migration, this volume treats a range of issues: economic, socio-political, pedagogical,  developmental, and cultural. Organized with a multidisciplinary thrust in mind, this book argues that any discussion of African migration, whether internal or external, must be conceived as only one aspect of a more complex, organic, and global patterning of flux and reflux necessitated by constantly shifting dynamics of world socio-economic, cultural, and political order.

Introduction  Toyin Falola & Niyi Afolabi Part 1: Migrations and Health Issues  1. Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora  Kathryn H. Jacobsen  2. Discourse of Health Risks and Anti-Racial Diversity in the Media Coverage of the Non-Ebola Panic  Charles Adeyanju  3. Predatory Globalization? : The World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Trade in Services, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West  Obijiofor Aginam  4. Searching the World: Following Three Graduating Classes of a Nigerian Medical School  Ike Anya, Chikwe Ihekweazu and Enyi Anosike  5. The Group of Twenty Nurses and the Pan African Struggle for Liberation  Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu  Part 2: Human Trafficking and Exploitation  6. Trafficking of Young Women and Girls: A Case of Au Pair and Domestic l³G