The global horizon : expectations of migration in Africa and the Middle East
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...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leuven : Leuven University Press,
[2012]
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| Schlagworte: | Migration, Internal Migration, Internal ; Africa Migration, Internal ; Middle East Africa ; Emigration and immigration Middle East ; Emigration and immigration Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli SchielkeOn 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 / Ai͏̈ssatou Mbodj-Pouye
- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke
- Afterword / Michael Jackson.