| Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road Contributor(s): Triulzi, Alessandro, McKenzie, Robert |
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ISBN: 9004243763 ISBN-13: 9789004243767 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $91.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2013002269 |
| Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.01 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
