Preamble: Home : A Poem / Warsan Shire -- Prologue: A Migrant's Last Journey : A Short Story / Kevin Eze -- Introduction: Listening to Migrant voices / Robert McKenzie and Alessandro Triulzi -- Sub-Saharan African Migrants Heading North : A Mobility Perspective / Joris Schapendonk -- Nigerian Border Crossers : Women Travelling to Europe by Land / Kristin Kastner -- High-Risk Migration : From Senegal to the Canary Islands by Sea / Miranda Poeze -- Stranded in Mauritania : Sub-Saharan Migrants in Post-Transit Context / Armelle Choplin and Jerome Lombard -- Untangling Immobility in Transit : Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Istanbul / Brigitte Suter -- Marabouts and Migrations : Senegalese between Dakar and Diaspora / Amber Gemmeke -- "Today, I Would Never Go to Europe" : Mobility for Resources and Local Development in West Africa / Laurence Marfaing -- Migration, Class and Symbolic Status : Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece / Apostolos Andrikopoulos -- Lessons for Life : Two Migratory Portraits from Eritrea / Magnus Treiber -- "Like a plate of spaghetti" : Migrant Voices from the Libya-Lampedusa Route / Alessandro Triulzi -- Epilogue: Our Journey : A Narrative / Dagmawi Yimer -- Notes on Contributors
Summary
What does it mean to cross half a continent without documents or rights? The self-told story of African migration