Africa's return migrants : the new developers? /
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| Imprint: | London [England] : Zed Books, 2015. ©2015 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (189 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Africa Now Africa now (Zed Books) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12349403 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; About the Editors; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; 1: Introduction ; The Celebratory Story of Returnees' Contribution to Development ; Conceptual and Analytical Framework ; The Chapters ; Bibliography ; 2: Successive Flops and Occasional Feats: Development Contributions and Thorny Social Navigation Among Congolese Return Migrants; A Brief Background to Congolese Return Migration and the Context of Return ; Some Notes on Methodology ; Engaging in New 'Innovative' Business? ; Conducting Business Differently? ; The Main Challenges: Social Capital and Networks ; Conclusions.
- Preparing and Managing Return Recognising and Seizing Opportunities ; Uncle Kumah Aka Mr Cash ; Translocal and Transnational Citizenries ; Resource Mobilisation ; Narratives of Excellence and Leadership ; 'Big Men'; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; Bibliography ; 5: 'Come Back, Invest, and Advance the Country': Policy Myths and Migrant Realities of Return and Development in Senegal; Introduction ; Economic Advancement Expectations and Senegalese Policy Myths ; The Business Logics of Return Migrant Investors in Senegal.
- Capital Repatriation or Home-Held Capital? Business Logics and Social NetworksUnderstandings of Success and Commitment to Personal and National Good ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; 6: The Role of Social Capital in Post-Conflict Business Development: Perspectives from Returning Migrants in Burundi; Introduction ; The History of Migration ; The Theoretical Framework ; The Economic Field in Burundi ; Returnees as Actors in the Economic Field ; Social Capital in the Burundian Economic Field ; Activating, Building and Maintaining Social Capital ; Conclusion ; References.
- 7: Threatening Miniskirts: Returnee South Sudanese Adolescent Girls and Social ChangeThe Evolving Post-War Environment in South Sudan and Research Methods; Settling in and Social Change ; Diverse Experiences of Girls' Settling In: Threatening Miniskirts and Transforming Gender and Generational Order ; Returnee Girls and Their Ambiguous Positions in Relation to Change ; Return as a Gendered and Generational Patchwork ; Bibliography ; 8: Obstacles and Openings: Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Cape Verde; Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Africa; Method and Material.