Bush Bound : : Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa / / Paolo Gaibazzi.
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activist...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Peasants by Other Means (Im)mobility and the Making of a Village Mooring
- Chapter 2 Being-on-the-land The Agri-culture of Migration
- Chapter 3 Looking for Money Livelihood Trajectories in and out of Mobility
- Chapter 4 Just Sitting The Spectre of Bare Immobility
- Chapter 5 Hesitant Patriarchs Becoming a Household Head
- Chapter 6 Civic Leaders? Reviving the Age Groups, Recapturing Permanence
- Conclusion Possibilities
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index