Long journeys : : African migrants on the road / / edited by Alessandro Triulzi and Robert McKenzie.

• TeilnehmendeR: Triulzi, Alessandro.; McKenzie, Robert
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Listening to Migrant Voices: An Introduction /; Sub-Saharan Migrants Heading North: A Mobility Perspective /; Nigerian Border Crossers: Women Travelling to Europe by Land /; High-Risk Migration: From Senegal to the Canary Islands by Sea /; Stranded in Mauritania: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Post-Transit Context /; Untangling Immobility in Transit: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Istanbul /; Marabouts and Migrations: Senegalese between Dakar and Diaspora /; “Today, I Would Never Go to Europe”: Mobility for Resources and Local Development in West Africa /; Migration, Class and Symbolic Status: Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece /; Lessons for Life: Two Migratory Portraits from Eritrea /; “Like a plate of spaghetti”: Migrant Narratives from the Libya-Lampedusa Route /; Our Journey /; Notes on Contributors --; Index of authors --; Index of Places --; Index of Subjects.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004250395
• ISSN: 1574-6925
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alessandro Triulzi and Robert McKenzie.

Trapped inside lorries or huddled aboard unseaworthy boats, irregular African migrants make for troubling headlines in western media, fueling fever pitch fears of an impending \'African exodus\' to Europe. Despite the increasing, albeit sensational, attention irregular migration attracts on both sides of the Mediterranean, little is known about what shapes and influences the lives of these Africans before, during, and after their “migratory projects.” By privileging migrants' narratives and drawing on evidence-based field research from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume demystifies and dislodges many common assumptions about the human ecology of irregular African migration to Europe, arguably one of the most widely debated, yet least understood, phenomenon of our time.