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Title: | Diasporan West African Communities: The Kru in Freetown and Liverpool |
Author: | Frost, Diane |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 92 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 285-300 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Great Britain Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | Kru immigrants Liberians diasporas labour migration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment History and Exploration Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240208704614 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=48A297B8BB2DC47EB3C2 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the experience of two transplanted communities of West African Kru migrants. Originally from Liberia, these labour migrants became involved in both internal African migration as well as external migration to Europe. The paper distinguishes the causes and mechanisms of migration within the broader development of British colonial activity in West Africa. Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Liverpool are examined in the context of these broader developments since they became two important centres in Kru diasporic settlement. The migration of Kru people to Freetown and Liverpool was important in reformulating and enhancing their own sense of identity. Economic opportunities became the raison d'être for Kru migration and this manifests itself in terms of short-term transient migration to the permanent establishment of thriving diasporic communities. Sociopolitical and historical conditions provided the broader parameters within which these peoples became 'scattered' across the globe over the last two hundred years or more. The historical and economic connections between the two ports of Liverpool and Freetown, and the role of the Kru in British maritime trade here influenced patterns of settlement and the nature of community organization and development. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |