Long journeys : African migrants on the road / edited by Alessandro Triulzi and Robert McKenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Triulzi, Alessandro.

McKenzie, Robert Lawrence.

Series:

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 8.

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--Migrations.

Africans.

Black people--Africa--Migrations.

Black people.

African diaspora.

Africans--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Travel--Social aspects.

Travel.

Migration, Internal--Social aspects--Africa.

Migration, Internal.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending \'African exodus\' to Europe. Despite the increasing, albeit sensational, attention irregular migration attracts on both sides of the Mediterranean, little is known about what shapes and influences the lives of these Africans before, during, and after their “migratory projects.” By privileging migrants' narratives and drawing on evidence-based field research from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume demystifies and dislodges many common assumptions about the human ecology of irregular African migration to Europe, arguably one of the most widely debated, yet least understood, phenomenon of our time.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Listening to Migrant Voices: An Introduction / Robert Lawrence McKenzie and Alessandro Triulzi

Sub-Saharan Migrants Heading North: A Mobility Perspective / Joris Schapendonk

Nigerian Border Crossers: Women Travelling to Europe by Land / Kristin Kastner

High-Risk Migration: From Senegal to the Canary Islands by Sea / Miranda Poeze

Stranded in Mauritania: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Post-Transit Context / Armelle Choplin and Jérôme Lombard

Untangling Immobility in Transit: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Istanbul / Brigitte Suter

Marabouts and Migrations: Senegalese between Dakar and Diaspora / Amber Gemmeke

“Today, I Would Never Go to Europe”: Mobility for Resources and Local Development in West Africa / Laurence Marfaing

Migration, Class and Symbolic Status: Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece / Apostolos Andrikopoulos

Lessons for Life: Two Migratory Portraits from Eritrea / Magnus Treiber

“Like a plate of spaghetti”: Migrant Narratives from the Libya-Lampedusa Route / Alessandro Triulzi

Our Journey / Dagmawi Yimer

Notes on Contributors

Index of authors

Index of Places

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-25039-5

OCLC:

851316159

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004250390 DOI