Sub-Saharan African Immigrants Stories of Resilience and Courage

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The purpose of this book is to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United States. The authors believe that telling our own stories from our own perspectives is important and empowering because when others tell our stories there are omissions and misrepresentations and a lot of stereotyping. The authors hope that the insights gained from the research in this book will be used by immigrant communities, academic institutions, and governmental agencies in advocating for immigration policies that positively impact the lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants and in planning support interventions.

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This timely book evinces the struggles, agency, and resilience of contemporary Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the United State. Drawing on the lived experiences of these immigrants, the book does not only subvert the common practice of homogenization in the extent literature, but also facilitates the recognition of this subgroup of Blacks as a worthy and viable prism through which we can understand the diversity, complexity, and creativity of the Black presence in the United States. This is a useful resource for scholars of Black Studies in the US and even beyond; it is truly a must read! Joseph Mensah, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, Canada.

This book onSub-SaharanAfrican Immigrants Stories of Resilience and Courage provides an empowering study on African immigration trends and punitive US immigration policies in a historical background of trade in enslaved Africans. It will also help readers to develop the ability to understand, respect, and values the contributions that immigrants from Africa made to the United States economic development. The book discusses topics in a way that promotes self-reflection and dialogues that is inclusive and not condescending about building relationship between immigrants as well as developing flexible and effective ways of dealing with a variety of diversity issues in the United StatesRobert Dibie, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies, Fort Valley State University.

Underscoring the voices of African immigrants in an anti-immigrant world, this well-researched and curated book, takes us into the finer details of lives of immigrants, their visions, challenges and strategies of survival. The chosen phenomenological approach is well suited to the task of listening and documents the stories of those who are said to be out of place. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Author Bio

Mariam Konat PhD, Carnegie Fellow, is Professor of African American and African Studies, and Gender and Womens Studies as Western Michigan University.

Fredah Mainah, PhD is currently a Training Officer with US Citizenship and Immigration Services.