| Description |
1 online resource (422 pages) |
| Series |
African Studies |
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African Studies
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations, Acronyms, Language Clusters; Preface; Chapter One Introduction: Migration Fantasies, Nightmarish Realities; Part I Migrations and Health Issues; Chapter Two Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora; Chapter Three Discourses on Health Risks and Anti-Racial Diversity in the Media Coverage of the Non-Ebola Panic; Chapter Four "Predatory Globalization?": The World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Trade in Services, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Africa
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Medical personnel -- Africa
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Migration, Internal -- Africa
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Emigration and immigration
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Medical care
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Medical personnel
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Migration, Internal
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Afolabi, Niyi
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| ISBN |
9780203927328 |
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020392732X |
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