Immigrant exclusion and insecurity in Africa
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Why do some immigrant communities integrate into their host societies in Africa while others face exclusion and violence? My dissertation offers new insights on the determinants of identity and group relations in ethnically diverse societies, through the lens of South-to-South migration. It argues and finds that immigrant exclusion in Africa is a function of both the economic competition that characterizes relations between immigrant and indigenous traders, and the bargains that immigrant community leaders strike with local police to become monopoly providers of immigrant socio-economic security. These dynamics structure the incentives of immigrants and hosts alike; cultural similarities between immigrant and host communities decrease the cost of passing as indigenous and threaten the positions of immigrant leaders and indigenous hosts. As a result, cultural overlap between immigrants and hosts in West Africa tends to exacerbate immigrant exclusion.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Adida, Claire Leslie |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
| Primary advisor | Laitin, David D |
| Thesis advisor | Laitin, David D |
| Thesis advisor | Fearon, James D |
| Thesis advisor | McAdam, Doug |
| Thesis advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
| Advisor | Fearon, James D |
| Advisor | McAdam, Doug |
| Advisor | Weinstein, Jeremy M |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Claire Leslie Adida. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Claire Leslie Adida
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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