This open access, groundbreaking collection sheds new light on the lives and livilhoods of members of emerging African diaspora around the world.

Across seven chapters, the book explores “new” African diasporas in both the Global North and Global South - that is, diasporas formed through more recent, usually unforced migration patterns, as opposed to those formed via older, often forced migrations such as those caused by the Atlantic slave trade. Along the way, this global, multidisciplinary team of researchers, themselves hailing from both the Global North and Global South, provide crucial insights into common issues and problems faced by members of these new diaspora, including social acceptance, economic challenges, and psychological and identity struggles.

This is a must-read for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in migration, global development, and contemporary developments in social perceptions of African identities.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nordic Africa Institute.

Yvonne Captain is Associate Professor of Latin American and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. In addition to Africa and its diasporas, her research focuses on South-South national relationships in Africa and Latin America.

Papa Sow is Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. His research focuses on migration, demography, climate change, biodiversity, and the anthropology of the body in Africa.

Elina Marmer is a lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Her research focuses on racism and education, particularly with regard to hegemonic knowledge production and its impact on students of African descent in Germany.