Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris

by Julie Kleinman

Book Overview

Paris's Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrants--self-fashioned adventurers--navigating life in the city.

In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520304411
• ISBN13: 9780520304413
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"