Lexington Books
Pages: 176
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8693-0 • Hardback • March 2014 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-0-7391-8694-7 • eBook • March 2014 • $103.50 • (£80.00)
Joseph Takougang is professor of African history in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Chapter 1: Failed Promises and Shattered Dreams
Chapter 2: Understanding Post-Colonial Cameroonian Migration to the United States
Chapter 3: Making it in America: Guts and Survival
Chapter 4: Creating a Home in America
Chapter 5: Staying Connected to the Homeland
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Some General Observations and Suggestions
Fascinating and illuminating scholarship. This book offers a lucid and engaging insight into Cameroonian migration and the formation of its diasporas. Carefully crafted, each chapter speaks with clarity about how, after decades of political and economic stability, Cameroonians are now looking to the United States to fulfill their economic aspirations. Long associated with migration to the colonial metropoles of France, Britain, and Germany, the increasing trend to migrate to America is being shaped by internal geopolitical and economic conditions associated with globalization and social changes in Africa. Highly recommended reading and a welcome addition to the growing number of scholarship on African migration and diasporas.
— John A. Arthur, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Joseph Takougang’s Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora captures in documentary and mesmerizing terms the whole gamut of experiences and perils the Cameroonian immigrants have gone through in their attempt to find a home away from home. Written from a personal point of view and enriched by first-hand experiences, interviews, research and conversations, Takougang discusses the various waves of Cameroonian immigration to the USA, the challenges they face and the fundamental concepts that undergird waves of Cameroonian immigration to the USA. The reader comes out feeling like he or she has danced, slept and wept with the thousands of Cameroonians engaged in this great exodus. This is a 'must read' book for all African scholars, friends, and the many out there who taste for the true picture of the Cameroonian Odyssey in the USA, especially the many non-Cameroonians who have had a whimsical idea of immigration and the often misinterpreted idea of the role these immigrants have played in the economic, social and professional development of the USA.
— Emmanuel Ngwang, Jarvis Christian College