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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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
[2012]
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.