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The Adventure: Violent Borders, Illegal Migration, and the Uncertain Quest for Life in Morocco

The Adventure: Violent Borders, Illegal Migration, and the Uncertain Quest for Life in Morocco

Bachelet, Sébastien

Hardcover

Series: New Ethnographies

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1526177684
ISBN13: 9781526177681
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a migration crisis and a sub-Saharan problem in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of the adventure at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.

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