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Willing Migrants - Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960 (Paperback, 1)
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Willing Migrants - Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960 (Paperback, 1)
Series: Western African Studies
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Eighty-five percent of Black African migrants to France come from a
single ethnic group in a single region of West Africa. The Soninke
have the oldest tradition of labor migration within Africa and were
also probably the first itinerant traders of West Africa; an
important proportion continue to be merchants today. The first
major study of the Soninke labor migration within Africa and to
France, Willing Migrants is based upon critical analysis of French
precolonial and colonial records and oral interviews with Soninke
migrants. Francois Manchuelle shows that these migrations were
driven by a search for improved economic conditions and that these
labor movements have a great deal in common with European and
American migrations. The empirical evidence runs sharply contrary
to the theoretical arguments common in the Africanist literature
that have stressed the role of the colonial state in forcing
migration through coercive violence and taxation. Providing a vital
link between African Studies and the study of labor migrations
around the world, Willing Migrants marks a major advance in
Africanist labor migration literature and should initiate new lines
of historical inquiry and set off wide-ranging debate.
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