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Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data The human cost of African migrations / edited by Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0‑415‑95837‑7 (alk. paper) 1. Africa‑‑Emigration and immigration. 2. Migration, Internal‑‑Africa. 3. Medical personnel‑‑Africa. 4. Medical care‑‑Africa. I. Falola, Toyin. II. Afolabi, Niyi. JV8790.H86 2007 304.8096‑‑dc22 2007006125 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the Routledge Web site at http://www.routledge.com To Dennis Cordell, scholar, humanist and world citizen & Isidore Okpewho, scholar and able navigator of our global Odyssey Contents List of Tables xi List of Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Language Clusters xiii Preface xix Chapter One Introduction: Migration Fantasies, Nightmarish Realities Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi 1 PART I: MIGRATIONS AND HEALTH ISSUES Chapter Two Migration and Health in Africa and the African Diaspora Kathryn H. Jacobsen 19 Chapter Three Discourses on Health Risks and Anti-Racial Diversity in the Media Coverage of the Non-Ebola Panic Charles T. Adeyanju 37 Chapter Four “Predatory Globalization?”: The World Trade Organization, General Agreement on Trade in Services, and Migration of African Health Professionals to the West Obijiofor Aginam 65 vii viii Contents Chapter Five Searching the World: Following Three Graduating Classes of a Nigerian Medical School Ike Anya, Chikwe Ihekweazu and Enyi Anosike 79 Chapter Six A Group of Twenty Nurses and the Pan African Struggle for Liberation Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu 89 PART II: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION Chapter Seven Trafficking of Young Women and Girls: A Case of “Au Pair” and Domestic Laborers in Tanzania Elinami Veraeli Swai 145 Chapter Eight Emerging Issues in the Trafficking of African Women for Prostitution Victor Nnamdi Opara 165 Chapter Nine Trafficking Contracts: Myth or Reality?: A Re-Examination of Consent in Human Trafficking Victor Nnamdi Opara 221 PART III: MIGRATION AND EDUCATION Chapter Ten School Migration: A Major Concern in Historically Disadvantaged Schools in South Africa Myra Maboya 261 Chapter Eleven Pushing and Pulling: Western Education’s Impact on Women’s Subjugation in Ghana Jamaine Abidogun 277 Contents ix PART IV: REFUGEES, DISPLACEMENT, AND RE- SETTLEMENT Chapter Twelve Peoples Without Homes: Displacement and the Security Situation in Africa Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi 303 Chapter Thirteen Determinants of Ethiopian Refugee Flow in the Horn of Africa, 1970– 2000 Solomon Addis Getahun 359 Conclusion “Unknown Immigrant:” The Persistence of Migration Blues Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi 381 Contributors 385 Index 391
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