Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration
This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2017
2017. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in anthropology ;
30. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421118906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : studying hope and uncertainty in African migration / Nauja Kleist
- 2. How to extract hope from papers? Classificatory performances and social networking in Cape Verdean visa applications / Heike Drotbohm
- 3. Sticking to God : brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina / Ida Marie Vammen
- 4. Zouglou music and youth in urban Burkina Faso : displacement and the social performance of hope / Jesper Bjarnesen
- 5. The lack of liberty drove us there : spatialized instantiations of hope and contested diasporan identity in the Liberian-American transnational field (1810-2010) / Stephen C. Lubkemann
- 6. Prospective moments, eternal salvation : the production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi ØSTBØ Haugen
- 7. Hope and uncertainty in Senegalese migration to Spain : taking chances on emigration but not upon return / Maria Hernandez-Carretero
- 8. The migratory adventure as a moral experience / Sylvie Bredeloup
- 9. Death of a gin salesman : hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger / Hans Lucht
- 10. Returning with nothing but an empty bag : topographies of social hope after deportation to Ghana / Nauja Kleist.
