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Structured Luck
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is a lottery that awards winners from underrepresented countries the chance to apply for legal permanent residence in the United States. Most lottery winners think of themselves as lucky, viewing the win as an opportunity to pursue better lives for themselves and their families. In Structured Luck, sociologist Onoso Imoagene uses immigrants’ stories to show that while the visa program benefits many recipients, the program’s design can also lead to exploitation in their countries of origin and reduced potential once they are in the United States. Combining ethnographic observation in Africa and interviews with immigrants, their family members, and frie...
Regeneration Songs
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics was awarded to the British capital, East London has been at the heart of the largest and most all-encompassing top-down urban regeneration strategy in civic history. At the centre of this has been the local government, Newham Council, and their daring proposal: an "Arc of Opportunity" for developers to transform 1,412 hectares of Newham. This proposal was outlined in a short film, London's Regeneration Supernova, and shown to foreign developers and businesses at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. While the sweeping changes to East London have been keenly...
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Homage to Asele
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Nigéria
Histoire, société, politique, économie, religion et culture… L’ouvrage clé pour comprendre l’actualité du NIGÉRIA. Fruit d’une uniformisation artificielle de la colonisation britannique, état indépendant depuis 1960, le Nigéria occupe une position géostratégique en Afrique. Pays le plus peuplé du continent, riche en pétrole et gaz naturel mais à l’économie fragile, force militaire importante mais touché par le terrorisme, le Nigéria est en proie aux luttes intestines et à l'instabilité politique, notamment à cause de la secte fondamentaliste Boko Haram (littéralement « l’éducation occidentale est un péché ») qui conteste la légitimité de l’État fédéral. Pays de contrastes, également au niveau de la répartition des ressources, le Nigéria pourrait pourtant devenir la première économie du continent africain et un interlocuteur international important s’il arrive à relever un défi : aménager son territoire afin de garantir le bien-être de l’ensemble des populations.
Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict
The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of linguistics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions. These brilliant essays look at some of the most conflicted sites in the world, where ethnic violence has been created and played out: Burma, Indonesia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mexico, and Guyana. Divided into two parts, Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict is a rich text for scholars of conflict studies, focusing on the sources and dynamics of ethnic violence and providing descriptions of ethnic conflict across the globe.
Lives of Great Men
From Lagos to Brooklyn to Accra to Paris; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary snapshots of same gender loving Africans, unsung Great Men living their lives, triumphing and finding joy in the face of great adversity.
