Voices of African immigrants in Kentucky : migration, identity, and transnationality /

"For centuries, immigration has been a topic of major concern in the US and has seen many significant shifts in policy, particularly within the last 150 years. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigration policy focused on restricting people originating from China. Then, af...

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Autors principals: Musoni, Francis (Autor), Otieno, Iddah Aoko (Autor), Wilson, Angene Hopkins (Autor), Wilson, Jack, 1939- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky [2019]
Col·lecció:Kentucky remembered: an oral history series
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvr7fdnd
Taula de continguts:
  • Nations represented by African immigrants in this book
  • Series foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: a historical and theoretical overview
  • Origins: where we are from
  • Opportunity: why and how we came
  • Struggles and successes
  • Connecting and contributing to two continents
  • Family and identity in the United States
  • Transnationality in the present and future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: suggested oral history interview segments for listening
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.