Table of Contents

Contents

Chapter 1. Africans in the United States: An Increasingly Visible Immigrant Population

Chapter 2. Patterns of African Immigration to the United States and Sociodemographic Profile

Chapter 3. Immigration and the U.S. Experience: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 4. An Intra-Group Comparison of African Immigrants in the United States: Gendered Variations?

Chapter 5. African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?

Chapter 6. African Immigrants in the United States: A Comparison with Natives

Chapter 7. African Immigrants in the United States: Summary and Concluding Observations

About the Author

Mamadi Corra is professor of sociology at East Carolina University (ECU).

Reviews

"Drawing on various sources of government data, Corra maps the socioeconomic incorporation of African immigrants with keen attention to gender differences and ethnoracial diversity. This book is setting the terms for new debates on the lives of African immigrants in the United States!"

"In this clearly written volume, Corra provides a comprehensive analysis of African immigrants' labor force outcomes. This is the first study to encompass movers from the entire continent: North Africa as well as Sub-Saharan. Corra's purview includes Black as well as white, women as well as men. Keeping these distinctions in mind, Corra examines several labor market outcomes. The fine-grained analysis proves worthwhile because the results vary markedly by outcome, place, race, and gender."

"Mamadi Corra has assembled a fascinating portrait of immigrants to the United States from Africa, examining key dimensions (such as race, gender, linguistic heritage, US legal status) and contrasting socioeconomic profiles across a variety of subsets of the US, US Black, immigrant, and African-immigrant populations. Importantly, this book is grounded not only on key ideas in the migration literature, such as selectivity, but also on key insights about languages and contexts across origin and destination countries. Corra is an insightful guide to a new chapter in the story of US immigration, as newcomers build their lives and, in the process, help build a new country."