“Black continental African identities in Canada: Exploring the intersections of identity formation and immigrant transnationalism” in Journal of Canadian Studies
Notwithstanding the role of immigrants’ transnationalism and identity formation in shaping their settlement and integration process, the burgeoning literature on Canadian immigration has paid only a perfunctory attention to this area of study. Similarly, despite the enormous diversity among Blacks in Canada, portrayals of Blacks as a homogenous group abound in Canadian public discourse and academic writings. It is with this conjoint lacuna in mind that the present study examines how the identities and diasporic consciousness of Black continental African immigrants in Canada are influenced by their transnational activities, highlighting the challenges involved in the definition of this ethnoracial group, as well as the changes its members have undergone as a result of living in Canada.
Other publications from this author include:
- “The Black, continental African presence and the nation-immigration dialectic in Canada” in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (2015)
- “Seeing/being double: how African immigrants in Canada balance their ethno-racial and national identities” in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (2015)
- “The global financial crisis and access to health care in Africa” in Africa Today (2014)
- “Ghana’s National Health Insurance: insights from members, administrators, and health care providers” in Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2013)
- “Cultural dimensions of African immigrant housing in Toronto: a qualitative insight” in Housing Studies (2013)
- Ghanaian and Somali immigrants in Toronto’s rental market: a comparative cultural perspective of housing issues and coping strategies” in Canadian Ethnic Studies (2013)
- “Access to postsecondary education: can schools compensate for socioeconomic disadvantage?” in Higher Education (2012)
- “Gender, power, and religious transnationalism among the African diaspora in Canada” in African Geographical Review (2012)
- Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social Conditions (2010)
- Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations on the Embattled Continent (2008)