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Beyond the Scrapyard: An Ethnography of Igbo Migrants in Germany.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Beyond the Scrapyard: An Ethnography of Igbo Migrants in Germany./
作者:	Eze, Thaddeus Ejiofor.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	293 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-06A.
標題:	Cultural identity. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28946788
ISBN:	9798496566193

Beyond the Scrapyard: An Ethnography of Igbo Migrants in Germany.
Eze, Thaddeus Ejiofor.

Beyond the Scrapyard: An Ethnography of Igbo Migrants in Germany. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 293 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Germany), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

When Igbo men from Nigeria gathered in a scrap yard in an industrial estate in the Ruhr city of Essen to dissemble cars, refrigerators, and other technical waste, surrounded by the sounds of unfamiliar music and the wafts of exotic foods, they met with incomprehension and mistrust from their neighbouring German citizens and the municipal authorities. The present study offers the very insights into these immigrants' socio-cultural identity that enable one to overcome such ill-informed responses. Its author, Dr. Thaddeus Ejiofor Eze, shares this Igbo cultural provenance. He has meticulously studied the ideas and values that constitute their identity in the southeast Nigerian homeland and inform their interactions abroad. This has resulted in an 'ethnography of transnational transactions' - of managing the trade between the scrap yard and the markets in Lagos and Onitsha and interacting with their German co-citizens in various social and religious contexts. Dr. Eze has examined the adaptive strategies enabling a participation in German social, economic and religious life. Drawing on Igbo cultural resources makes such strategies feasible in the first place. For the principles of ritualised kinship, affinity, ancestry and locality and the values of solidarity, cooperation and education not only structure Igbo society in the Nigerian homelands, but also steer their encounter with and participation in the German civil society. Conversely, that civil society in its various operative domains opens the door to intercultural interactions and exchanges that afford the Igbo their participation in that society without relinquishing their own cultural identity. Dr. Eze aptly concludes that, instead of subscribing to the axiom that 'integration' require 'assimilation', German social conditions and Igbo social identity complement each other, leading to "a new valorisation of diversity and difference". In this respect the present study is of much wider relevance than that of a single case study only. For it is from such external cultural resources that any society may draw its benefits - as Germany, and other European societies, have done for centuries. Dr. Eze's study delivers a scientifically founded and eloquent plea for an assessment of the presence of 'strangers' in one's midst in these very terms.

ISBN: 9798496566193Subjects--Topical Terms:

774728
Cultural identity.

Beyond the Scrapyard: An Ethnography of Igbo Migrants in Germany.
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