Adéyanjú, Charles
Hegemony and Transnational Practices of Nigerian-Yorùbás in Toronto
his paper discusses transnational practices of Nigerian-Yorùbá immigrants in Toronto. It is argued that Yorùbá transnational practices stem from their "lived experience" of exclusionary practices and their material positions in Canadian society, and their pre-existing conception of ethnicity' as real' in post-colonial Nigerian society.Using the Gramscian notion of hegemony, it is pointed out that the reaffirmation and reconfiguration of unequal social relations within the Yorùbá transnational social fields has some materiality in the sense that it taps into what Gramsci calls "feeling passion" -- the moment where Yorùbá individuals' understandings of their social position emotionally and normatively resonate with their lived experiential consciousness/common sense. Further, the paper argues that diverse discourses and ideologies focusing on "ethnicity"/"race" are articulated by the dominant members of both host and home societies to "naturalize" and "normalize" the existing unequal social relations. A grassroots approach for the displacement of continued racial, gender and class inequalities adumbrated by the existing transnational activities is necessary.
Available on the web: www.africamigration.com/archive_02/c_adeyanju.htm (Accessed February 27, 2008)
Available on the web: www.africamigration.com/archive_02/c_adeyanju.htm (Accessed February 27, 2008)
| Lingua | eng |
| Nomi |
[author] Adéyanjú, Charles |
| Soggetti |
Studi di caso
Nigeria Immigrazione
case studies
Nigeria Immigration |
