The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East
Knut. Graw
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Leuven : : Leuven University Press, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (200 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - The Global Horizon - Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction: Reflections on Migratory Expectations in Africa and Beyond; The Visible and the Invisible of Contemporary Migration; The New Quality of Migration in Africa; Migration as Horizon; Expectation and Experience; Acknowledgements; References; On the Cause of Migration: Being and Nothingness in the African-European Border Zone; Homo Migrans and the Question of Cause; Beginnings; Questions; Globalization as Absence; Absence and Nothingness; The Question of Cause. - 'Stranger Logic' and the Imperative of MigrationThe Local Meaning of Migration; Being and Becoming in the Context of Immobility; References; Notes; "God's Time is the Best": Religious Imagination and the Wait for Emigration in The Gambia; "God's Time is the Best"; A Matter of Life or Death? Undocumented Boat Migration and (im)proper Timing; Haste and Patience; Concluding Remarks; References; Notes; The Eiffel Tower and the Eye: Actualizing Modernity between Paris and Ghana; Introduction; Kobenah in Paris; Kasena Notions of Seeing. - Being Literate in the Village: Changing Patterns of Social Opportunities. - Beyond the Kasena World: Seeing and the Archaeology of ModernityModernity and the Image of the Tower; Modern Displays Inside the House; Reprendre and Actualizing Modernity; References; Notes; Literacy, Locality, and Mobility: Writing Practices and 'Cultural Extraversion' in Rural Mali; The Cultural Dimensions of Literacy: Extraversion in Question; The Local Currency of Global Forms; The Open-ended Work of Translation; Literacy, Locality, and Mobility: Socio-historical Variations; Literacy and Mobility as Common Experiences; Writing in a Notebook and the 'Production of Locality'. - Local Alternatives: The Mwana Lunda ModelThe Prayer Model; Travelling Inside One's Head: Shege and their Shengen; The Local and the Line: Locating Traces of Lives on the Move; Conclusion; References; Notes; Spaces in Movement: Town-Village Interconnections in West Africa; Migration as a Historical Dogon Identity; Contemporary Seasonal Migration and the Mobility of the Songho Population; Social Constructions in Movement; References; Notes; Migration, Identity and Immobility in a Malian Soninke Village; Introduction; History of Migration and Change in Soninke Society. - Migration and FinalityReferences; Notes; Bushfalling: The Making of Migratory Expectations in Anglophone Cameroon; The Making of Bushfalling; The Imminence of Departure: Secrecy, Jealousy and Bad Luck; Lines and Openings: in Search of Scholarships, Cyber Massas and Doki Men; Closure and the Limits of Credible Information; Conclusion; References; Notes; City on the Move: How Urban Dwellers in Central Africa Manage the Siren's Call of Migration; Introduction; Routes: A Short History of Congolese Models of Movement and Migration; The 'Mwana Poto' Model; The 'Guangzhou Model'. - Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act
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| ISBN | 9789058679062
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