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SUMMARY: Dr. Abdoulaye Kane: Villages gone digital: Villages’ WhatsApp grou
 ps and Migrants’ New Forms of Intervention in Sending Communities
DESCRIPTION: Abdoulaye Kane is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and t
 he Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. His teaching an
 d research interest is on the transnational practices of Haalpulaar migrant
 s in Europe and the United States and their impacts on the sending communit
 ies in the Senegal River Valley.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><em>The UBC Centre for Migration Studies S
 peaker Series 2021-2022 presents:</em></p><h3>“Villages Gone Digital: Villa
 ges’ WhatsApp groups and Migrants’ New Forms of Intervention in Sending Com
 munities” with Dr. Abdoulaye Kane</h3><blockquote><div><span lang="EN-US">T
 hursday\, March 3\, </span><span lang="EN-US">2022</span></div><div><span l
 ang="EN-US">12:45 PM — 2:15 PM Pacific Time (PT) </span></div><div>Location
 : <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/7egTTxaFRWkjvTzh6">Liu Institute - Place of 
 Many Trees</a></div><div>Free & open to the public.</div></blockquote><div>
 <img class="size-large wp-image-17146 aligncenter" src="https://migr.cms.ar
 ts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2021/11/2021-22-Events-6-724x1024.png
 " alt="" width="620" height="877" /></div><h4><strong>[Abstract]</strong></
 h4><div><p>This paper privileges a historical and anthropological approach 
 in examining the evolving relationships between Haalpulaaren migrants in Af
 rica\, Europe and America and their home communities through the use of soc
 ial media platforms such as WhatsApp. We are particularly interested in the
  emergence of new forms of development interventions bringing together migr
 ants across the globe and the people they left behind in deploying coordina
 ted collective actions for the benefits of local communities. Village Whats
 App groups have been initiating lately in the Senegal River Valley innovati
 ve community projects that are discussed\, elaborated\, and funded virtuall
 y. We will consider two cases in this paper that will illustrate the new dy
 namics of migrants’ intervention that are complementing the traditional rol
 e of hometown associations in this remittance dependent region of Senegal.<
 /p></div><h4><strong>[Bio] </strong></h4><p>Abdoulaye Kane is an Associate 
 Professor in Anthropology and the Center for African Studies at the Univers
 ity of Florida. His teaching and research interest is on the transnational 
 practices of Haalpulaar migrants in Europe and the United States and their 
 impacts on the sending communities in the Senegal River Valley. He is the a
 uthor of several articles and book chapters on the experience Senegalese mi
 grants in Europe and America and their connections to their sending communi
 ties in the Senegal River Valley. He is the co-editor of two books on Afric
 an migration. 1- African Migration: Patterns and Perspective and 2- Medicin
 e\, Mobility and Power in Global Africa with Indiana University Press. He i
 s the editor of the section On the Move: Urbanization\, Migration\, and Tra
 nsnationalism in The Handbook of the Sahel\, Oxford University Press (2021)
 .</p><div></div><h3><strong>Event Registration:</strong></h3><p>Pre-RSVP fo
 r this event is now closed but you are still welcome to attend. The event i
 s free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!</p>
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