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Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today

Darkness Before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today

Lucht, Hans

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520270711
ISBN13: 9780520270718
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Dec 26 2011
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, Darkness before Daybreak reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants who, like countless others, are often in the news but are rarely understood. Hans Lucht tells how these men live on the fringes of society in Naples, what the often deadly journey across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea involved, and what their lives in the fishing village of Senya Beraku--where there are no more fish--were like. Asking how these men find meaning in their experiences, Lucht addresses broader existential questions surrounding the lives of economic refugees and their death-defying struggle for a life worth living. He also considers the ramifications of the many deaths that occur in the desert and the sea for those who are left behind.

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