New Hidden Narratives of African Migration
Exploring Media and the Contestation of Place
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Beschreibung
This book examines African migration through the lens of media, memory, and contested belonging, offering fresh insights into displacement, identity, misinformation, and digital storytelling. It provides a clear, research-based account of hidden migration stories, challenging dominant media portrayals while updating our understanding of longing, belonging, hybridity, and place in African mobility.
Across its four carefully structured parts, the book moves from migration beyond headlines to the emotional geographies of lost homes, fractured families, and the inner struggles of diasporic identity. It explores gendered journeys, silenced histories, and the unspoken realities of intra-African and intercontinental movement, revealing how secrets, rituals, objects, and memory shape migrant lives. The text then turns to politics and power, examining colonial legacies, fragile migration governance, nationalism, and the politics of knowledge that influence how African migration is understood and controlled.
The final section of the book focuses on digital belonging, surveillance, and social media, showing how African migrants use online spaces to disrupt dominant narratives, resist misinformation and disinformation, and reclaim voice and visibility. By combining media studies, migration research, and storytelling, the work offers a vital resource for students, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and general readers searching for authoritative, accessible, and transformative perspectives on African migration, media narratives, identity, and place in a globalised world.
Abiodun Adeniyi is Professor of Communication at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria, and a pioneering scholar in diasporic communication. His teaching and research also focus on development and strategic communication. He holds a B.Sc. from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and an M.A. (Chevening Scholar) and a PhD from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Widely travelled within Africa and beyond, his published works include Diasporic Communication in the Digital Age (2021), and the co-edited volume Media and the National Security Question: Communicating (In)security in Nigeria, West Africa, and the Sahel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He is completing a forthcoming book on Ancestral Villages, Digital Homes: Memory, Migration, and the Transformation of Belonging in Urban Africa.
This book examines African migration through the lens of media, memory, and contested belonging, offering fresh insights into displacement, identity, misinformation, and digital storytelling. It provides a clear, research-based account of hidden migration stories, challenging dominant media portrayals while updating our understanding of longing, belonging, hybridity, and place in African mobility.
Across its four carefully structured parts, the book moves from migration beyond headlines to the emotional geographies of lost homes, fractured families, and the inner struggles of diasporic identity. It explores gendered journeys, silenced histories, and the unspoken realities of intra-African and intercontinental movement, revealing how secrets, rituals, objects, and memory shape migrant lives. The text then turns to politics and power, examining colonial legacies, fragile migration governance, nationalism, and the politics of knowledge that influence how African migration is understood and controlled.
The final section of the book focuses on digital belonging, surveillance, and social media, showing how African migrants use online spaces to disrupt dominant narratives, resist misinformation and disinformation, and reclaim voice and visibility. By combining media studies, migration research, and storytelling, the work offers a vital resource for students, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and general readers searching for authoritative, accessible, and transformative perspectives on African migration, media narratives, identity, and place in a globalised world.
Explores issues including misinformation, disinformation, media portrayal, myth, memory, and digital storytelling Challenges stereotypical narratives by emphasising hidden and contested issues Reframes and updates information on longing, belonging, displacement and hybridity
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Abiodun Adeniyi
Themen in »New Hidden Narratives of African Migration«
African Diaspora Globalisation Cultural Hybridity Displacement Digital Media African Identity Home and Belonging Migration Narratives Misinformation Media Portrayals of Africa