Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration

Book Overview

This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of uncertainty, deepening inequality, and delimited access to global circuits of legal mobility.

The volume takes departure in a mobility paradox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367358980
• ISBN13: 9780367358983
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"