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Darkness before daybreak : African migrants living on the margins in southern Italy today / Hans Lucht.
LIBRA DG845.66.G53 L83 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucht, Hans, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghanaians--Italy--Naples--Social conditions.
- Ghanaians.
- Immigrants--Italy--Naples--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Fishers.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Naples (Italy)--Ethnic relations.
- Naples (Italy).
- Fishers--Ghana--Economic conditions.
- Senya Beraku (Ghana)--Economic conditions.
- Senya Beraku (Ghana).
- Naples (Italy)--Emigration and immigration.
- Ghana--Emigration and immigration.
- Ghana.
- Italy--Naples.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 284 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, "Darkness before Daybreak "reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants who, like countless others, are often in the news but are rarely understood. Hans Lucht tells how these men live on the fringes of society in Naples, what the often deadly journey across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea involved, and what their lives in the fishing village of Senya Beraku--where there are no more fish--were like. Asking how these men find meaning in their experiences, Lucht addresses broader existential questions surrounding the lives of economic refugees and their death-defying struggle for a life worth living. He also considers the ramifications of the many deaths that occur in the desert and the sea for those who are left behind.
- Contents:
- Part I Losses and Gains in Naples
- 1 Clandestino 3
- 2 Migrant Work Situations 28
- 3 Suffering in a Globalized World 66
- Part II The Journey to Europe
- 4 The Mediterranean Passage 119
- 5 The Maghreb Connection: Libya and a Desert to Cross 160
- Part III In the Village of the Lost Captains
- 6 The Guan of Senya Beraku 179
- 7 The Body Stays, but the Soul Returns 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780520270718
- 0520270711
- 9780520270732
- 0520270738
- OCLC:
- 706467089
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