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Title Long journeys : African migrants on the road / edited by Alessandro Triulzi and Robert McKenzie
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Series Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 ; v. 8
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Africans -- Migrations.
Black people -- Africa -- Migrations
African diaspora.
Africans -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Travel -- Social aspects
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African diaspora
Africans -- Migrations
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
Travel -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Triulzi, Alessandro
McKenzie, Robert Lawrence.
ISBN 9789004250390
9004250395