Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Benjamin R. Burgen Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 192 ISBN: 9783848407965
Описание
Return migration for economic reasons is a deeply rooted phenomenon in Soninke culture. As a people whose homeland straddles a transition zone of environmental and cultural regions the Soninke have always been involved in supra-regional economic exchanges. As European influence became more pervasive in West Africa and industrialization reshaped the balance of power and trade globally, Soninkes became wage laborers in colonial centers and ultimately the colonial metropole. Today, there is a well-established Soninke presence across Western Europe centered in Paris. These migrant communities maintain a great deal of economic and social influence upon the Soninke homeland. It is necessary to view this migration as a social phenomenon. One that is widely celebrated in Soninke communities as a form of ethnic non-reliance on the state. Migration has come to provide an almost necessary input in order to maintain rural village life in a decreasingly productive environment with an...
