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The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East

The Global Horizon: Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East

Graw, Knut
Schielke, Joska Samuli

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 9058679063
ISBN13: 9789058679062
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Apr 15 2013
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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, actual migration becomes increasingly restricted.Based on detailed ethnographic accounts, the contributors to this volume focus on the imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration. Decentering the focus of much of migration studies on the receiving societies, the volume foregrounds the subjective aspect of migration and explores the impact which the imagination and practice of migration have on the sociocultural conditions of the various local settings concerned.

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