Black African Neo-Diaspora : Ghanaian Immigrant Experiences in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Area

Offers a study of the African immigrant experience in the US. This book examines the emergence of an African neo-diaspora by considering how Ghanaians in Cincinnati are renegotiating the nexus of Ghanaian and American cultures. It presents issues of their migration trajectory, business experiences, and socialization of their second generation.

Despite recent large numbers of African immigrants to the United States facilitated by the emergence of globalized labor markets, African immigration to the United States remains an understudied phenomenon. This book provides an intensive study of the experiences of an African immigrant group (Ghanaians) in a smaller Midwestern urban location (the greater Cincinnati area). Black African Neo-Diaspora focuses on why Ghanaians have immigrated to the United States and their travel trajectories to Cincinnati. The author examines the internal social institutions that have emerged within the community to help with integration of members of this group into broader American society, as well as the ways in which Ghanaian immigrants enter the business arena and how their economic activities are changing urban America. Gender dynamics within immigrant families and the identity and socialization of second-generation immigrants are also explored.