| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 271 pages) : color illustrations |
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Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora |
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Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
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| Contents |
Introduction; Mora Mclean1. Education for All: The Case of Out of School Migrants in Ghana; Daniel Kyereko2. Irregular Migration as Survival Strategy: Narratives from Vulnerable Youth in Urban Nigeria; Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo3. Untold Stories: Newark's Burgeoning West African Population and the In-School Experiences of African Immigrant Youth; Michael Simmons and Mahako Etta4. Police-Youth Relations: On the Ground Perspectives from Nigeriás Federal Capital; Samuel Oluwole Ojewale5. "To become somebody in the future": Exploring the Content of Youth Aspirations in Urban Nigeria; Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima6. Someone has to tell these children: You can be as good as anybody!; Cecilia Fiaka7. The Limits of Individual Level Factors for Girls Achievement in Ghana and South Africa; Sally A. Nuamah8. Youth Employment and Labour Market Vulnerability in Ghana: Aggregate Trends and Determinants; Adedeji Adeniran, Adekunle Yusuf, and Joseph Ishaku9. The Role of 'eTrash2Cash' in Curbing the Menace of 'Almajiri' Vulnerability in Nigeria through Waste Management Social Micro-entrepreneurship; Alh. Muhammad Salisu Abdullahi10. Burden, Drivers, and Impacts of Poor Mental Health in Young People of West and Central Africa: Implications for Research and Programming; Kenneth Juma, Frederick Wekesah, Boniface Ushie, Caroline W. Kabiru, and Chimaraoke Izugbara |
| Summary |
This open access edited collection explores obstacles that impede, and potential pathways toward improving, the material and psychological well-being of youth in and from West Africa. Contributors range from researchers to practitioners, offering a transatlantic, transcontinental set of perspectives on the mounting evidence that, whether they reside in poor "underdeveloped" or wealthier (OECD) countries, young people who live in poverty and are African-born or of African descent are disproportionately burdened by the global phenomenon of increasing income inequality. Mora McLean is Co-Adjutant in the Office of the Chancellor and Office of Globally Engaged Experiential Learning at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 25, 2019) |
| Subject |
Youth -- Africa, West -- Psychology
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Youth -- Africa, West -- Social conditions
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Youth -- Psychology
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Youth -- Social conditions
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West Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLean, Mora L., editor
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| ISBN |
9783030210922 |
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3030210928 |
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