Download or read book The Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 and the Exodus of Ethiopia s Trained Human Resources written by Getachew Metaferia and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the factors that contributed to the exodus of trained Ethiopians to the US, this work explores their conditions and integration into American society, as well as their adjustment and the utilization of their training and professional experience. It identifies the probable political and economic developments in Ethiopia that may attract Ethiopians who live and work in the US. This study addresses a general problem faced by many African countries.
Download or read book Haile Selassie Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest written by Joseph W. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest tells the story of the Ethiopian community in Seattle. The community began with approximately two dozen college students who came to the city during the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. These sojourning students earned college and university degrees, but were unable to return home to use them to modernize the developing nation. These stranded students became pioneers who built a micro-community in inner-city Seattle.Providing background with an analysis of Seattle's geographic, demographic, social, and economic challenges, this volume studies the students who became asylum seekers; their falls in position, power, prestige; and the income of these elite and non-elite settlers. The authors analyze examples of those who became entrepreneurs and the ingenuity and determination they employed to start successful businesses.The authors examine the challenges imposed on them by a school system that assigned their children to grade levels according to age rather than knowledge. They explore how the American welfare system worked in practice and explain how and why Ethiopians die young in Seattle. This fascinating study will be of interest to sociologists, ethnographers, and regional analysts.
Download or read book The Other African Americans written by Yoku Shaw-Taylor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their growing presence, research on Caribbean and, especially, African immigrants has been scant. The scarcity of writings on these "other" African Americans contributes to the invisibility of these groups. The objective of this project is to broaden our understanding of these other African Americans. A focus on intra-racial dynamics among African Americans is important because of the ever-growing diversity of America's black population. The Other African Americans is an edited volume of original research that provides historical and contemporary information on African and Caribbean individuals and families. Each chapter addresses a particular topical area covering the most salient issues facing these immigrants to the U.S. today.
Download or read book The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America 1900 2000 written by Solomon Addis Getahun and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistical tables and graphs.
Download or read book Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World written by Lena Dominelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revitalising Communities in a Globalising World explores the opportunities and constraints that the dynamics of globalisation present for human development in a range of different countries and situations. Arguing that globalisation is currently a system of organising social relations along neoliberal lines, this timely volume examines practical examples of how people respond to significant social changes in their communities. The idea of communities is deconstructed to show that globalisation has collapsed the boundaries of time, space and place in ways that have exacerbated inequalities, at the same time giving rise to unparalleled riches for some. The book encompasses a number of case studies that speak to policymakers, practitioners, educators and students interested in studying globalisation and making the most of its potential for change.
Download or read book Reconfiguring Citizenship written by Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship as a status assumes that all those encompassed by the term 'citizen' are included, albeit within the boundaries of the nation-state. Yet citizenship practices can be both inclusionary and exclusionary, with far-reaching ramifications for both nationals and non-nationals. This volume explores the concept of citizenship and its practices within particular contexts and nation-states to identify whether its claims to inclusivity are justified. This will show whether the exclusionary dimensions experienced by some citizens and non-citizens are linked to deficiencies in the concept, country-specific policies or how it is practised in different contexts. The interrogation of citizenship is important in a globalising world where crossing borders raises issues of diversity and how citizenship status is framed. This raises the issue of human rights and their protection within the nation-state for people whose lifestyles differ from the prevailing ones. Besides highlighting the importance of human rights and social justice as integral to citizenship, it affirms the role of the nation-state in safeguarding these matters. It does so by building on Indigenous peoples' insights about linking citizenship to connections to other people and the environment and arguing for the inalienability and portability of citizenship rights guaranteed collectively through international level agreements. These issues are of particular concern to social workers given that they must act in accordance with the principles of democracy, equality and empowerment. However, citizenship issues are often inadequately articulated in social work theory and practice. This book redresses this by providing social workers with insights, knowledge, values and skills about citizenship practices to enable them to work more effectively with those excluded from enjoying the full rights of citizenship in the nation-states in which they reside.
Download or read book Political Evolution and Democratic Practice in Uganda 1952 1996 written by Jim Ocitti and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume refutes the claim that the present no-party political system in Uganda is more democratic than past systems, and examines the reasons why democracy has failed to take root there.
Download or read book The Problem with Africanity in the Seventh Day Adventist Church written by Alven Makapela and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the historical presence of Africans, African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans in the Seventh-Day Adventist church, this work examines issues which have contributed to the problems of race relations in the church, and argues that it should either correct or reinterpret some of its doctrines.
Download or read book The Role of Language in the Struggle for Power and Legitimacy in Africa written by Abiodun Goke-Pariola and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Nigeria as a case study and drawing copious illustrations from other African countries, in particular, Tanzania and the Republic of South Africa, this work discusses the significance of language in the process by which post-colonial African societies have been constructing their identity. It engages in both an historical and contemporary analysis of the central role of European - and sometimes African - languages in the process of state construction and in group conflicts. Its adoption of a multidisciplinary approach provides background information for scholars and teachers in African politics, linguistics, literature, education, and international studies.
Download or read book A Discourse on Just and Unjust Legal Institutions in African English speaking Countries written by James S. E. Opolot and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers the historical as well as contemporary socio-political situations in which just and unjust legal situations, law-making bodies or parliaments, office of the ombudsman, faculties of law, police, courts, and penal systems are located. It provides a context for all relevant parties - citizen groups, professional associations, educators, law-makers, judges, police officials, and prison authorities.
Download or read book Corruption and the Crisis of Institutional Reforms in Africa written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contains a mixture of analytical ideas and views, and recommends reconstruction of the neo-colonial state as an effective way to deal with this pervasive institution. It examines corruption from a public choice perspective, and part of the book deals specifically with Nigeria.
Download or read book The Press Under Military Rule in Nigeria 1966 1993 written by Bayo Oloyede and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the relationship between Nigerian military governments and the Nigerian press in the context of press freedom over a period of twenty-three years. The largely historical legal study focuses on four objectives to wit: to examine the laws (decrees and edicts) which defined the limits of press freedom during military rule in Nigeria; to draw together in one document the pertinent Nigerian case law in the area of press freedom during military rule; to identify and analyze the institutional, legal and non-legal measures and mechanisms utilized by Nigerian military regimes in controlling the press; and to identify and analyze the socio-political factors that influenced or affected press freedom during military rule in Nigeria.
Download or read book Making it in America written by Peter Hagos Gebre and published by Aasbea Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations with eleven successful Ethiopians in America from different ethnic backgrounds who are in different businesses
Download or read book Zambia and the Decline of Kaunda 1984 1998 written by Stephen Chan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays spans a 15-year period of close observation of Zambia and its first leader, Kenneth Kaunda. It begins with the 1984 Zambian elections and continues to Kaunda's accusation of treason by the Chiluba government in 1998.
Download or read book The Oral History and Literature of the Wolof People of Waalo Northern Senegal written by Samba Diop and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work (which springs from Senegalese and African oral cultures and traditions, and is the work of an observer and writer from within Wolof culture) provides insights to the fields of oral and comparative literature. The epic tale contained in the manuscript, (The Epic Tale of the Waalo Kingdom) was collected in the town of Rosso-S n gal from the griot S q an (and the performance was recorded on videotape). Notes to the performance text treat various details relating to Wolof culture and history."
