The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

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 wo...

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Other Authors: Schielke, Joska Samuli (Editor), Graw, Knut (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2012]
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Table of 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.