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Bob (Robert M. Press), researches and writes (articles and 2 books: latest in 2015) about nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes in subsahara Africa: Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, including individual and small group activism. He is also published (2017: Africa Today) on African migration to Italy/Europe. Bob is an Associate Professor of political science and former Fulbright Scholar in Sierra Leon. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent for eight years covering East and West Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has taught at the University of Southern Mississippi since 2003 and earned his Phd in Political Science in 2004 at the University of Florida. He is the author of three peer-reviewed, academic press books and numerous reviewed articles. He has won recognition by some of the U.S.'s top social movement scholars. His most recent work includes his in-depth interviews with African migrants in Italy and France about their dangerous journeys to Italy/Europe and adds to theories of migrant networking and typology. His overall research focus is on human rights. At USM he is Director of the Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties. Bob loves to run and to sing (usually not at the same time.) He is married to Betty Press, a professional and award-winning photographer.
Supervisors: Dr. Goran Hyden; Dr. Michael Chege
Phone: (cell) 601-434-3804
Address: 107 South 21st Avenue
Hattiesburg, MS. 39401
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Africans continue to migrate across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea, where tens of thousands... more Africans continue to migrate across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea, where tens of thousands have drowned. In Libya, many suffer enslavement and other harsh treatment as they flee persecution or poverty, or both. Yet there have been few studies of their journey. This study, based primarily on some sixty interviews by the author in 2014–2016 with African migrants in Italy and France, provides a portrait of resilience, courage, and strategic decisions that differs sharply from media images of helplessness. It suggests reconsidering migrant networks and typologies in view of the breakdown and attempted repair of networks on these journeys, where categories blur, ranging from free to slave and back to free.
Books by Robert M Press
Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of moth... more Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers − and helped bring change. With few exceptions, they did it nonviolently. Global in application and focusing on Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this tribute to the strength of the human spirit also breaks new ground in social movement theories, showing how people on their own or in small groups can make a difference.
Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of moth... more Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers − and helped bring change. With few exceptions, they did it nonviolently. Global in application and focusing on Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this tribute to the strength of the human spirit also breaks new ground in social movement theories, showing how people on their own or in small groups can make a difference.
Africans continue to migrate across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea, where tens of thousands... more Africans continue to migrate across the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea, where tens of thousands have drowned. In Libya, many suffer enslavement and other harsh treatment as they flee persecution or poverty, or both. Yet there have been few studies of their journey. This study, based primarily on some sixty interviews by the author in 2014–2016 with African migrants in Italy and France, provides a portrait of resilience, courage, and strategic decisions that differs sharply from media images of helplessness. It suggests reconsidering migrant networks and typologies in view of the breakdown and attempted repair of networks on these journeys, where categories blur, ranging from free to slave and back to free.
Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of moth... more Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers − and helped bring change. With few exceptions, they did it nonviolently. Global in application and focusing on Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this tribute to the strength of the human spirit also breaks new ground in social movement theories, showing how people on their own or in small groups can make a difference.
Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of moth... more Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression without Violence is the true story of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers − and helped bring change. With few exceptions, they did it nonviolently. Global in application and focusing on Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this tribute to the strength of the human spirit also breaks new ground in social movement theories, showing how people on their own or in small groups can make a difference.