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Title:Cultures of migration: African perspectives
Editors:Hahn, Hans PeterISNI
Klute, GeorgISNI
Chapter(s):Present
Year:2007
Issue:32
Pages:291
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung (ISSN 0938-7285)
City of publisher:Münster
Publisher:Lit Verlag
ISBN:9783825806682
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:migrants
mobility
international migration
Abstract:This collective volume on African cultures of migration aims to overcome the shortcomings of a push-and-pull-factor analysis; instead, the perspectives of the migrants themselves orient the approach of 'cultures of migration'. The essays are organized in three sections: Migration as expeditions and encounters; Migration as challenge: experiences and conflicting values; Localizing transcontinental migration. Contributions: Cultures of migration: introduction (Georg Klute & Hans Peter Hahn); Part 1: Pastoral nomadism and urban migration: mobility among the Fulbe Wodaabe of Central Niger (Elisabeth Boesen); Finding one's way through places: a contemporary trade journey of young Zanzibari traders (Julia Pfaff); Going 'off-road': with Toyota, chech and e-guitar through a Saharian borderland (Ines Kohl); Part 2: Mobility and society in the Sahel: an exploration of mobile margins and global governance (Mirjam de Bruijn); Politics, patriarchy, and new traditions: understanding female migration among the Jola (Senegal, West Africa) (Michael Lambert); Migration as discursive space: negotiations of leaving and returning in the Kasena homeland (Burkina Faso) (Hans Peter Hahn); Junior-senior linkages in migration: youngsters' perceptions of migration in rural Burkina Faso (Dorte Thorsen); Part 3: What's new with the 'been-to'? Educational migrants, return from Europe and migrant's culture in urban southern Ghana (Jeannett Martin); Dreaming of a good life: young urban refugees from Eritrea between refusal of politics and political asylum (Magnus Treiber); Being from faraway: constructing the 'local' in Kabylia (Judith Scheele). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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