By Ezekiel Umo Ette
Africans in the US come from assorted areas of the continent; they communicate varied languages and are from various religion traditions. Nigerian Immigrants within the usa: Race, identification, and Acculturation makes an attempt to generate an curiosity within the learn of African immigrants by way of taking a look at problems with cost and adjustment of Nigerians within the usa. The literature is scanty approximately this workforce of immigrants and little is understood approximately their motivations for relocating to the us and the problems that they face. The ebook for this reason seeks to give a contribution to the immigration literature and information base in addition to rfile the African narrative exhibiting the flight of Nigerians to the U.S.. The ebook extra seeks to polish a gentle at the lives of those transplants as they settle right into a new society. It describes these Nigerians who selected their very own to dwell completely within the usa, reviewing the social conditions and behaviors of immigrants from Nigeria, and noting the stressors that have an effect on winning integration and adjustment. The e-book explores the criteria that give a contribution to the variation and integration of Nigerian immigrants dwelling in a few metropolitan components of the us and asks: how do the immigrants themselves interpret their reviews in a brand new society? In an try to resolution this question, others are generated resembling: who're those Nigerians that experience left their place of origin? What has been their adventure and the way has this event formed them and their knowing of the immigration technique? finally, it asks what we will be able to research from this event. using the examine of this inhabitants in the course of the approach to phenomenology, Nigerian Immigrants within the usa leads the reader to appreciate the adventure of being diversified in the United States from the immigrants' views and to determine the event via their eyes. those that paintings with Nigerian immigrants will locate this e-book insightful and revealing.
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