Africa on the move : migration, translocal livelihoods and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa /

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Author / Creator:Steinbrink, Malte, author.
Uniform title:Afrika in Bewegung. English
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020].
Description:1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:Springer geography, 2194-315X
Springer geography,
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12602415
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Other authors / contributors:Niedenführ, Hannah, author.
Long, Shelby, translator.
ISBN:9783030228415
303022841X
9783030228408
3030228401
9783030228408
9783030228422
3030228428
9783030228439
3030228436
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 6, 2019).
Summary:This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783030228408
Printed edition: 9783030228422
Printed edition: 9783030228439
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-22841-5