Rachel R Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 107825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel R Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2758-6884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Theo Van Leeuwen and Staffan Selander, The Semiotics of Toys and Games: The Childhood Artefacts That Introduce Us to the World
Towards an integrated approach to violence against women: Persistence, specificity and complexity
This essay deals with the topic of violence against women in a cross-national, transdisciplinary perspective. Through the investigation of a vast empirical, theoretical literature and critical thinking on the directions taken by research, the distinctive features and the complexity of violence against women are pointed out. Variable in terms of impact and form, violence against women is a feature not only present in widely-differing geo-cultural …
Heritage Language Learners in First‐Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes
This article reports on a survey of language study motivations for first‐year language learners at two large private East Coast American universities. Surveys were completed by 401 students in courses for 19 different foreign languages. Forty percent of respondents were designated as heritage language learners (HLLs), and they were divided into two subclasses: narrowly defined HLLs, who indicated that the target language was regularly spoken in t…
Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA
In this article I examine ethnographically the discursive means by which Igbo speakers in hometown associations in the USA are crafting lives and communities abroad to express a territory-bound sense of ethnic group membership. I contend that Igbo speakers living abroad are undergoing a process of ethnic formation or ethnification that is structured by increased rates of immigration and recent historical and political change in Nigeria. In respon…
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Professional Nigerian Women, Household Economy, and Immigration Decisions
This paper demonstrates the conditions under which some African professional women make decisions to immigrate based on gaining the ability to fulfil cultural expectations for them in financial maintenance of the household. Many women within African states, including the upper-echelon of women from highly educated, wealthy, and influential families, find that cultural expectations for financial contributions to and financial management of their h…
Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: Contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory orders in the U.S
This short essay, which is a preface to two full length articles by Reynolds and by Youngstedt, also in this volume, highlights important contrasts between two African migratory orders in cities in the United States, especially by examining economic conditions under which the two communities use global information technologies as tools of community cohesion and formation in diaspora. The central contrast is that Nigerien Hausa experiences rest at…
We Are Not Surviving, We Are Managing: The constitution of a Nigerian diaspora along the contours of the global economy
This ethnographic piece outlines how the geography of globalization and its socieconomic vicissitudes condition unique life experiences for Nigerian Igbo immigrants in the U.S. The elite class of Igbo people from Nigeria continue to immigrate to the U.S. in large numbers. As professionals, ethnic group members tend to settle in mainstream American neighborhoods, experiencing a high degree of structural integration into global professional workpla…
An African brain drain: Igbo decisions to immigrate to the US
This article outlines the conditions under which a particular group of professional Nigerians has made the decision to immigrate to the United States and how, once abroad, they have established a continuum for immigration from the home area. The paper has been generated from f ieldwork and interviews among Igbo people in the Chicago area, conducted between 1997 and 2000. The article explains the educational, cultural and economic conditions under…
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Intoduction, Stephanie Newell. Part 1 West Africa: Hausa creative writing in the 1930s - an exploration in postcolonial theory, Graham Furniss Indian films and Nigerian lovers - media and the creation of parallel modernities, Brian Larkin primary text 1 - excerpts from soyayya pamphlet Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Alhaki Kwikiyo(?) Onitsha market literature, Donatus Nwoga the role of the publisher in Onitsha market literature, Don Dodson primary text 2…
Yoruba Hometowns: Community, Identity and Development in Nigeria
Introduction. Community Day Celebrations: A New Tradition at Home. Knowing Your Place: Hometown and Identity. We Are Just Sojourners Here: Ijesa Migration. We Love Ourselves Abroad: Hometown Organizations and Their Members. Ceremonies and Celebrations: The Symbolism of Hometown Links. Local Development and the Economic Crisis. Self-Help and the Practice of Local Development in Ijesaland. The Elusive Goal of Unity: Politics, Conflict, and Morality…
Women in Igbo Life and Thought
A member of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria who became a nun and trained as an anthropologist, Joseph Therese Agbasiere had a unique opportunity to transcend some of the preconceptions and subjectivities inevitable when an 'outsider' studies a native society. Her richly detailed ethnography examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wie…
Yoruba Hometowns: Community, Identity and Development in Nigeria
Introduction. Community Day Celebrations: A New Tradition at Home. Knowing Your Place: Hometown and Identity. We Are Just Sojourners Here: Ijesa Migration. We Love Ourselves Abroad: Hometown Organizations and Their Members. Ceremonies and Celebrations: The Symbolism of Hometown Links. Local Development and the Economic Crisis. Self-Help and the Practice of Local Development in Ijesaland. The Elusive Goal of Unity: Politics, Conflict, and Morality…
An African brain drain: Igbo decisions to immigrate to the US
This article outlines the conditions under which a particular group of professional Nigerians has made the decision to immigrate to the United States and how, once abroad, they have established a continuum for immigration from the home area. The paper has been generated from f ieldwork and interviews among Igbo people in the Chicago area, conducted between 1997 and 2000. The article explains the educational, cultural and economic conditions under…
We Are Not Surviving, We Are Managing: The constitution of a Nigerian diaspora along the contours of the global economy
This ethnographic piece outlines how the geography of globalization and its socieconomic vicissitudes condition unique life experiences for Nigerian Igbo immigrants in the U.S. The elite class of Igbo people from Nigeria continue to immigrate to the U.S. in large numbers. As professionals, ethnic group members tend to settle in mainstream American neighborhoods, experiencing a high degree of structural integration into global professional workpla…
Women in Igbo Life and Thought
A member of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria who became a nun and trained as an anthropologist, Joseph Therese Agbasiere had a unique opportunity to transcend some of the preconceptions and subjectivities inevitable when an 'outsider' studies a native society. Her richly detailed ethnography examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wie…
Heritage Language Learners in First‐Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes
This article reports on a survey of language study motivations for first‐year language learners at two large private East Coast American universities. Surveys were completed by 401 students in courses for 19 different foreign languages. Forty percent of respondents were designated as heritage language learners (HLLs), and they were divided into two subclasses: narrowly defined HLLs, who indicated that the target language was regularly spoken in t…
Professional Nigerian Women, Household Economy, and Immigration Decisions
This paper demonstrates the conditions under which some African professional women make decisions to immigrate based on gaining the ability to fulfil cultural expectations for them in financial maintenance of the household. Many women within African states, including the upper-echelon of women from highly educated, wealthy, and influential families, find that cultural expectations for financial contributions to and financial management of their h…
Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: Contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory orders in the U.S
This short essay, which is a preface to two full length articles by Reynolds and by Youngstedt, also in this volume, highlights important contrasts between two African migratory orders in cities in the United States, especially by examining economic conditions under which the two communities use global information technologies as tools of community cohesion and formation in diaspora. The central contrast is that Nigerien Hausa experiences rest at…
Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA
In this article I examine ethnographically the discursive means by which Igbo speakers in hometown associations in the USA are crafting lives and communities abroad to express a territory-bound sense of ethnic group membership. I contend that Igbo speakers living abroad are undergoing a process of ethnic formation or ethnification that is structured by increased rates of immigration and recent historical and political change in Nigeria. In respon…
Women in Igbo Life and Thought
A member of the Igbo tribe of Nigeria who became a nun and trained as an anthropologist, Joseph Therese Agbasiere had a unique opportunity to transcend some of the preconceptions and subjectivities inevitable when an 'outsider' studies a native society. Her richly detailed ethnography examines kinship practices, marriage customs, and women's responsibilities in the house and the community, establishing the tremendous influence that Igbo women wie…
An African brain drain: Igbo decisions to immigrate to the US
This article outlines the conditions under which a particular group of professional Nigerians has made the decision to immigrate to the United States and how, once abroad, they have established a continuum for immigration from the home area. The paper has been generated from f ieldwork and interviews among Igbo people in the Chicago area, conducted between 1997 and 2000. The article explains the educational, cultural and economic conditions under…
Readings in African Popular Fiction
Intoduction, Stephanie Newell. Part 1 West Africa: Hausa creative writing in the 1930s - an exploration in postcolonial theory, Graham Furniss Indian films and Nigerian lovers - media and the creation of parallel modernities, Brian Larkin primary text 1 - excerpts from soyayya pamphlet Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Alhaki Kwikiyo(?) Onitsha market literature, Donatus Nwoga the role of the publisher in Onitsha market literature, Don Dodson primary text 2…
Yoruba Hometowns: Community, Identity and Development in Nigeria
Introduction. Community Day Celebrations: A New Tradition at Home. Knowing Your Place: Hometown and Identity. We Are Just Sojourners Here: Ijesa Migration. We Love Ourselves Abroad: Hometown Organizations and Their Members. Ceremonies and Celebrations: The Symbolism of Hometown Links. Local Development and the Economic Crisis. Self-Help and the Practice of Local Development in Ijesaland. The Elusive Goal of Unity: Politics, Conflict, and Morality…
Globalization and African Ethnoscapes: Contrasting Nigerien Hausa and Nigerian Igbo migratory orders in the U.S
This short essay, which is a preface to two full length articles by Reynolds and by Youngstedt, also in this volume, highlights important contrasts between two African migratory orders in cities in the United States, especially by examining economic conditions under which the two communities use global information technologies as tools of community cohesion and formation in diaspora. The central contrast is that Nigerien Hausa experiences rest at…
We Are Not Surviving, We Are Managing: The constitution of a Nigerian diaspora along the contours of the global economy
This ethnographic piece outlines how the geography of globalization and its socieconomic vicissitudes condition unique life experiences for Nigerian Igbo immigrants in the U.S. The elite class of Igbo people from Nigeria continue to immigrate to the U.S. in large numbers. As professionals, ethnic group members tend to settle in mainstream American neighborhoods, experiencing a high degree of structural integration into global professional workpla…
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Professional Nigerian Women, Household Economy, and Immigration Decisions
This paper demonstrates the conditions under which some African professional women make decisions to immigrate based on gaining the ability to fulfil cultural expectations for them in financial maintenance of the household. Many women within African states, including the upper-echelon of women from highly educated, wealthy, and influential families, find that cultural expectations for financial contributions to and financial management of their h…
Heritage Language Learners in First‐Year Foreign Language Courses: A Report of General Data Across Learner Subtypes
This article reports on a survey of language study motivations for first‐year language learners at two large private East Coast American universities. Surveys were completed by 401 students in courses for 19 different foreign languages. Forty percent of respondents were designated as heritage language learners (HLLs), and they were divided into two subclasses: narrowly defined HLLs, who indicated that the target language was regularly spoken in t…
Igbo professional migratory orders, hometown associations and ethnicity in the USA
In this article I examine ethnographically the discursive means by which Igbo speakers in hometown associations in the USA are crafting lives and communities abroad to express a territory-bound sense of ethnic group membership. I contend that Igbo speakers living abroad are undergoing a process of ethnic formation or ethnification that is structured by increased rates of immigration and recent historical and political change in Nigeria. In respon…
Towards an integrated approach to violence against women: Persistence, specificity and complexity
This essay deals with the topic of violence against women in a cross-national, transdisciplinary perspective. Through the investigation of a vast empirical, theoretical literature and critical thinking on the directions taken by research, the distinctive features and the complexity of violence against women are pointed out. Variable in terms of impact and form, violence against women is a feature not only present in widely-differing geo-cultural …
Theo Van Leeuwen and Staffan Selander, The Semiotics of Toys and Games: The Childhood Artefacts That Introduce Us to the World
Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Igbo (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)