The Global Horizon Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East / edited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graw, Knut., Editor.

Contributor:

Schielke, Joska Samuli, editor of compilation.

Graw, Knut, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Middle East.

Migration, Internal.

Migration, Internal--Africa.

Middle East--Emigration and immigration.

Middle East.

Africa--Emigration and immigration.

Africa.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act

Contents:

Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke

On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw

Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes

City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck

Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros

Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jónsson

"God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi

The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman

Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke

Afterword / Michael Jackson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789461663993

9461663994

9789461661258

9461661258

OCLC:

873808736

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461663993