Introduction. Community Day Celebrations: A New Tradition at Home.; Knowing Your Place: Hometown and Identity.; ""We Are Just Sojourners Here"": Ijesa Migration.; ""We Love Ourselves Abroad"": Hometown Organizations and Their Members.; Ceremonies and Celebrations: The Symbolism of Hometown Links.; Local Development and the Economic Crisis.; Self-Help and the Practice of Local Development in Ijesaland.; The Elusive Goal of Unity: Politics, Conflict, and Morality.; Conclusion: Communities and Development.
Lillian Trager is professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is author of The City Connection: Migration and Family Interdependence in the Philippines, and has published widely on development in Nigeria.
This is Trager's chef-d'oeuvre, a rich study of the strong ties Yoruba migrants maintain with their hometowns in Nigeria, and pioneering explorations of the implications for development. The case studies of hometown celebrations, organizations, and individual lives are wonderful. - Josef Gugler
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