Cameroonian Immigrants In The United States
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Cameroonian Immigrants In The United States
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Author : Joseph Takougang
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Cameroonian Immigrants In The United States written by Joseph Takougang and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Social Science categories.
Although Cameroon’s image as a stable nation with a strong economy may have mitigated against any large-scale migration by Cameroonians following independence, the economic collapse beginning in the mid-1980s and the coerced implementation of democratic reforms in the early 1990s exposed fault lines in the nation’s economic and political institutions. As a result, thousands of Cameroonians have left the country in search of a better life abroad. While Europe remains the favorite destination for many of these migrants, a significant number have also come to the United States. Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States examines the increase in the population of Cameroonians in the United States in the last two decades, the difficulties that many of them must endure in order to come to America, and the challenges they face adapting to their new environment. Despite the problems they face, these new immigrants are creating a home in America. At the same time, however, they remain connected to their country of birth through remittances to friends and family members and other forms of investments and development projects in their communities.
The Internet And The Construction Of The Immigrant Public Sphere The Case Of The Cameroonian Diaspora
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Author : Kehbuma Langmia
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2008
The Internet And The Construction Of The Immigrant Public Sphere The Case Of The Cameroonian Diaspora written by Kehbuma Langmia and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Computers categories.
The Internet has become a powerful medium for Africans in the Diaspora to meet for cross border dialogue. Cameroonians all over the world are using this tool for what the present study considers to be a public-sphere discourse. Cameroonians living in the United States and other nations use the Internet to discuss and debate the polotical, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the nationhood of Cameroon with the aim of seeking solutions to some of those pressing needs that confront the country. This study builds on Habermas and other leading feminist authours' conceptualization of the democratic public sphere, which is central to Habermas theory of communicative action. This study's theoretical framework incorporates elements of the African experience in order to examine the dominant, oppositional, and parallel themes that arose from four Cameroonian websites just before the national presidential election in 2004. The methodology adapts Jager's critical discourse analytical (CDA) framework, which was deemed an approprate methodology because it sought not only to analyze the linguistic component of the discourse in the four websites, but more importantly to examine the holistic structure of the discourse that is its history and context. This study concludes that gender disparity existed in the dialogue between Cameroonian men and women. Cameroonian men were more dominant than the women in the discourse on the central themes involving the Cameroonian presidential election of 2004. The all female website was more focused on the infrastructural development of Cameroon. Lastly, these findings suggest that future studies should focus on the ways that the Cameroonians and other Diasporic populations utilize the Internet to create alternative discursive spaces for political and social purposes. Book jacket.
The Python Trail
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Author : Richard Afuma
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2015-06-07
The Python Trail written by Richard Afuma and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Growing up in remote Cameroon, Richard Afuma could not expect to live much past the age of 40, and his chances of any sort of education were slim. But at the age of eight, Afuma found his way to a school run by Baptist missionaries. When he was ten, he saw his first white person who, from his education, he took to be Jesus Christ. He was told that the Land Rovers he saw were made by these same people—Jesuses with supernatural powers—who were uniformly called Americans. In The Python Trail, Afuma portrays the kind of journey that many immigrants have made, but few have described.
Les Mbengis Migration Gender And Family
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Author : Atekmangoh, Christina
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2017-07-19
Les Mbengis Migration Gender And Family written by Atekmangoh, Christina and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with Social Science categories.
This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called “bushfalling”) and remittance flows to Cameroon. With the current dire economic state, Cameroonians increasingly aspire to go abroad to make a living. Migrants achieve this through a collective (family) strategy and with the help of migration brokers. Relations between migrants and the family that stays in Cameroon can be characterized as follows: Families raise and educate their children to become adults. In return to giving their children the “gift of life”, families expect reciprocity, best secured through economic success abroad and the sending of remittances by migrants. As families in Cameroon heavily contribute to the funding of migration trajectories, often by selling properties such as land or houses or borrowing money, they also expect a return on their investments. All that constitutes this study explores under the notion of the moral economy of transnational remittances. In this study, remittances are understood to be a composite of financial, material, and cultural flows—maintaining and transforming social and kinship ties. The book proposes also a large exploration of themes in relation to transnational migration: why and how Cameroonians migrate (the role of the operational family in terms of decision and funding; the role of migration brokers through the identification of “lines” and the provision of the necessary papers); the moral justification for migration; the ways social relations and customs are changed by status gained through migration; the ways people explain the failure of migration projects, the difficulties to stay abroad; the matrimonial strategies to go and stay abroad. This is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study that takes thinking on transnational migration informed by African strategies and experiences a step further.
Behold The Dreamers
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Author : Imbolo Mbue
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Behold The Dreamers written by Imbolo Mbue and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Fiction categories.
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
From Dust To Snow
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Author : Wilfred Ngwa
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006
From Dust To Snow written by Wilfred Ngwa and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Travel categories.
Traveling and living abroad can be a wonderful and rewarding experience, a dream come true for some, but it can also be a horrific and interminable nightmare. "From Dust to Snow: Bush-Faller" chronicles the true-life experiences of (Bush-Fallers) Africans (primarily Cameroonians), in Europe and the United States. Featuring more than twenty accounts from students, asylum seekers and the employed, contributors in this work of 'edutainment' ferry you through their experiences, first-hand, from the moment the idea of traveling overseas was conceived, through departure emotions, first impressions upon arrival, culture shock, hardships, comic moments, high points of each life, and even re-entry shock, including deportation. One way or the other, you should find yourself on one of the pages of this book, either as a foreigner or as a host. Prepare yourself for what is about to happen; Discover the African Dream, a Dream far bigger than Bush-falling.
Crossroads In The Diaspora
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Author : Jean Bosco Fogham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-24
Crossroads In The Diaspora written by Jean Bosco Fogham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Crossroads in the Diaspora: Immigrants Integration Matters speaks to individuals who immigrate to the United States, especially to people in the African diaspora. Jean Bosco Fogham, the author, draws upon his own journey from Cameroon to the United States and his years of experience as a cofounder and board member of nonprofit organizations with missions to support immigrant individuals. He uses these resources to shape a guide that offers assistance to people making the transition from the culture of their homelands to their new lives in America. Individuals who make such a journey may find themselves at a crossroads with choices about the direction they will take as they make places for themselves in their new culture. In its pages, Crossroads in the Diaspora tells how individuals can build new lives that rest on deeply held and durable values. The guidance touches upon the social, educational, and professional elements of life in a new place. Crossroads in the Diaspora: Immigrants Integration Matters gathers together both the authors personal experience and the shared wisdom gained by groups of immigrants to sketch out a roadmap for embracing strong values, enjoying lives of plenitude, and caring for others making the same journey.
Behold The Dreamers
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Author : Imbolo Mbue
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Behold The Dreamers written by Imbolo Mbue and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with Cameroonians categories.
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a cha
Post Colonial Cameroon
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Author : Joseph Takougang
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-06-13
Post Colonial Cameroon written by Joseph Takougang and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-13 with Political Science categories.
This book by a diverse group of Cameroonian scholars, both at home and in the diaspora, presents multidisciplinary insights on some of the critical issues including political, economic, and sociocultural developments in post-colonial Cameroon.
Identity And Transnationalism
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Author : Kassahun H. Kebede
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Identity And Transnationalism written by Kassahun H. Kebede and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with Art categories.
Identity and Transnationalism discusses the identity and transnational experiences of the new second-generation African immigrants in the US, bringing together the lived experiences of the new African diaspora and exploring how they are shaping and reshaping being and becoming black. In the half a century since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, close to 1.4 million black African immigrants have come to the United States (Pew Research Center 2015). Nevertheless, in proportion to its growing size, the New African Diaspora in the United States, particularly the second generation constitutes one of the least studied groups. In seeking to redress the dearth of scholarship on the New African Diaspora in the United States, the contributors to this book have documented the lives and experiences of second-generation African immigrants. Based on fresh data, the chapters provide insight into the intersection of immigrant cultures and mainstream expectations, as the second-generation African immigrants seek to define and redefine being and becoming American. Specifically, the authors discuss how the second-generation Africans contest being boxed into embracing a Black identity that is the product of specific African American histories, values, and experiences not shared by recent African immigrants. The book also examines the second generations' connections with their parents' ancestral countries and whether and for what reasons they participate in transnational activities. Authored and edited by key immigration scholars, Identity and Transnationalism represents a ground-breaking contribution to the nascent discussion of the New African Diaspora’s second generation. It will be of great interest to scholars of Cultural Anthropology, The New African Diaspora, African Studies, Sociology and Ethnic studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of African and Black Diaspora.