The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East / / edited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, [2012] ©[2012] |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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 worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9461663994 9461661258 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke. |