The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /

The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East / edited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke. - 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Open Access

9789461663993 9789058679062 9789461661258




Migration, Internal--Middle East.
Migration, Internal--Africa.


Middle East--Emigration and immigration
Africa--Emigration and immigration.


Electronic books.

HB2121.A3 / G56 2012

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