The big gamble : the migration of Eritreans to Europe / Milena Belloni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belloni, Milena, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eritreans--Social aspects--Europe.

Eritreans.

Africans--Migrations--Social aspects.

Africans.

Africans--Migrations.

Social aspects.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Every year, tens of thousands of Eritreans risk their lives making perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. Why do they face such an ordeal to reach European countries where long-term prospects are often dismal? The Big Gamble is a vivid ethnography about one of the most under-researched refugee populations today and their efforts to escape chronic crisis. Author Milena Belloni visited family homes in Eritrea and lived with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan and Italy to untangle the multiple reasons behind current migration from the Horn of Africa to Europe. Chronic crisis back home, limited prospects in the country of initial asylum, as well as transnational family expectations push migrants in complex journeys across countries and continents Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants' choices of destinations. The book reveals how shared imagination and morality are critical to understanding the trajectories and the motivations of those willing to risk everything for asylum in Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

When migration becomes the norm

Hyper-mobile and immobile: diverse responses to protracted displacement in Ethiopia and Sudan

An endless journey: transnational and peer pressure in onwards migration in Europe

The moralities of border crossing: inside the world of smuggling and transnational marriages

Entrapped: making sense of high-risk migration through gambling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Online version: Belloni, Milena, 1985- The big gamble

ISBN:

9780520298705

0520298705

OCLC:

1088737271