Journal article
Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA
Global networks (Oxford), v 9(2)
Apr 2009
Abstract
In this article I examine ethnographically the discursive means by which Igbo speakers in hometown associations in the USA are crafting lives and communities abroad to express a territory‐bound sense of ethnic group membership. I contend that Igbo speakers living abroad are undergoing a process of ethnic formation or ethnification that is structured by increased rates of immigration and recent historical and political change in Nigeria. In response to these events, shifting representations of self and group identity incur an essentialist quality from abroad. Such essentialism is a paradoxical earmark of globalization for the brain‐drain Igbo professional.
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- Title
- Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA
- Creators
- RACHEL REYNOLDS
- Publication Details
- Global networks (Oxford), v 9(2)
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 18
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000263858100005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-61849164543
- Other Identifier
- 991014878617204721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Anthropology
- Geography
- Sociology