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- Title
Ghanaische und Somali-Migranten in Europa -- Ein Vergleich zweier Diasporen.
- Authors
Schlee, Günther; Schlee, Isir
- Abstract
This article compares two ethnographic experiences. One is the research by Boris Nieswand on Ghanaians in Germany, with a focus on Berlin, and in Ghana, with a focus on Dormaa. The other one is the experience of Isir Schlee as a Somali in Germany, exploring the ramifications of Somali networks also in other European countries, and that of her husband, Günther Schlee, who has shared many of her contacts with the Somali community in Europe and was also involved in researchon Somali in various countries of the Horn of Africa. It attempts a systematic comparison between Ghanaian and Somali migrants in Germany. The assumption that education as a value and form of status acquisition is more important in the case of Ghanaians seems to hold true in the subsequent sections of the article. Changes in German policies regarding the recruitment of foreign labour and immigration policy are discussed as they affect both communities. Global factors come in as they find their expression in the economic decline of Ghana or the political marginalization of Somalia and its subsequent fragmentation with the end of the superpower rivalry in the Horn of Africa. In the last part the article examines the forms in which the diaspora groups are instrumentalized by politics in their respective countries of origin and the kinds of influence they have there on politics and development.
- Subjects
EUROPE; BERLIN (Germany); GERMANY; GHANA; ETHNOLOGY; GHANAIANS; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOMALIS; EDUCATION; DIASPORA
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2012, Vol 137, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0044-2666
- Publication type
Article