Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration /
This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of...
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Routledge,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Studying hope and uncertainty in African migration / Nauja Kleist
- How to extract hope from papers? : Classificatory performances and social networking in Cape Verdean visa applications / Heike Drotbohm
- Sticking to God : Brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina / Ida Marie Vammen
- Zouglou music and youth in urban Burkina Faso : Displacement and the social performance of hope / Jesper Bjarnesen
- The lack of liberty drove us there : Spatialized instantiations of hope and contested diasporan identity in the Liberian-American transnational field (1810-2010) / Stephen C. Lubkemann
- Prospective moments, eternal salvation : The production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi Østbø Haugen
- Hope and uncertainty in Senegalese migration to Spain : Taking chances on emigration but not upon return / María Hernández-Carretero
- The migratory adventure as a moral experience / Sylvie Bredeloup
- Death of a gin salesman : Hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger / Hans Lucht
- Returning with nothing but an empty bag : Topographies of social hope after deportation to Ghana / Nauja Kleist.
