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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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.