Review:
This is an unusual book, drawing scholars with divergent interests, perspectives, and geographical expertise to consider the nature of migration into and out of Africa. Every reader will find individual chapters that are provocative and empirically rich. Readers who spend time reviewing all the chapters will undoubtedly come away with new perspectives on human mobility. No longer will we speak about migration in Africa as a singular or insular process. Nor will we accept simple, mechanical or economistic explanations. If nothing else, this book tell us that mobility on the continent is at once highly localized, deeply personal and shaped by global political processes.--Loren B. Landau, University of the Witwatersrand
How does one live when one is 'stuck' in a transit space and situation? European national policies to control and reject transient people have created these spaces and left people trapped in inbetweenness. By focusing on transit spaces and time, this collaborative research initiative speaks to liminality itself. The volume encourages readers to question the more and more ambiguous relationships between individuals and the Nation-State, and the socio- political arrangements taking shape on the margins of states.--Michel Agier, Centre d'Études Africaines
How does the EU's restrictive immigration policy affect the migration processes in Africa? In this volume, a group of scholars provide convincing answers to that pressing question based on thorough theoretical work and solid empirical research. A must-read for all interested in understanding contemporary human mobility.--Martiniello Marco, Université de Liège
About the Author:
Jocelyne Streiff-Fenart Jocelyne Streiff-Fenart is director of the Research Unit on Migrations and Society at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis/University Paris Denis Diderot and IRD, France. Aurelia Segatti is a senior researcher for the African Center for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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