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Darkness before daybreak : African migrants living on the margins in southern Italy today / Hans Lucht.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucht, Hans, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghanaians--Italy--Naples--Social conditions.
- Ghanaians.
- Immigrants--Italy--Naples--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Fishers--Ghana--Economic conditions.
- Fishers.
- Naples (Italy)--Ethnic relations.
- Naples (Italy).
- Senya Beraku (Ghana)--Economic conditions.
- Senya Beraku (Ghana).
- Naples (Italy)--Emigration and immigration.
- Ghana--Emigration and immigration.
- Ghana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- pt. 1. Losses and gains in Naples
- pt. 2. The journey to Europe
- pt. 3. In the village of the lost captains.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613278562
- 9781283278560
- 1283278561
- 9780520950467
- 0520950461
- OCLC:
- 759396379
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