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Invisibility in African displacements : from structural marginalization to strategies of avoidance
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards discouraging and policing their movements. What is rarely understood or scrutinised however, are the intricate ways in which African migrants are marginalised and excluded from public discourse; not only in Europe but in migrant-receiving contexts across the globe.Invisibility in African Displacements offers a series of case studies that explore these dynamics. What tends to be either ignored or demonised in public debates on African migration are the deliberate strategies of avoidance or assimilation that migrants make use of to gain access to the destinations or opportunities they seek, or to remain below the radar of restrictive governance regimes.This books offers fine-grained analysis of the ways in which African migrants negotiate structural and strategic invisibilities, adding innovative approaches to our understanding of both migrant vulnerabilities and resilience.
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- Kleist, Nauja, et al.
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Mediating Mobility in West Africa : Improvisation, Culture, and Volatility in Migration Infrastructures
- 2023
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Ingår i: The international migration review. - 0197-9183 .- 1747-7379.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do migrants enact their mobilities in contexts where formalized labor migration is minimal, and where the European fight against irregular African migration is restricting the possibilities for informal border crossings? And which roles do cultural norms, social institutions, and individual agency play in facilitating migration? To answer these questions, this article offers a comparative reflection on the growing interest in the mediation of migration that emphasizes the actors and structures that shape and facilitate a migrant trajectory. Drawing on our own research in various West African contexts, and on a broader reading of research evoking the mediation of mobility, we engage primarily with the emerging scholarship on migration infrastructures. As a contribution to the study of how mobility is mediated by actors and structures external to the migrant, we suggest that it is important to move beyond the tendency to restrict analysis in a migrant-/institution-centric trade-off in which emphasis is either placed on migrant aspirations and capabilities or the institutionalized mediation of migration. We further propose to analytically distinguish between the mediation of migration—denoting the processes of facilitation and restriction of mobility through institutions, external interventions, and socio-cultural practices—and the modular components of connection and organization through which actual migration occurs. To accentuate the shifting and volatile configuration of these elements, we suggest a concept of migration infrastructural assemblages. We thereby emphasize the benefits of incorporating improvisation, culture, and volatility in our understanding of the meditation of migration in West Africa and beyond.
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- Andersson, Marianne, 1955-
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Faktasökning
- 2010. - 4
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Ingår i: Att studera Afrika. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. - 9789171066725 ; , s. 16-23
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Andersson, Marianne, 1955-
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Litteratursökning
- 2010. - 4
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Ingår i: Att studera Afrika. - Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. - 9789171066725 ; , s. 7-15
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Att studera Afrika : vägar till källorna
- 2004. - Ny omarb.
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Att studera Afrika är en guide till Afrikastudier inom främst det samhällsvetenskapliga området. Både tryckta och Internet-baserade källor behandlas i denna nya, grundligt uppdaterade upplaga. Boken ger praktisk vägledning till handböcker, databaser, kartor, statistik och en rad andra hjälpmedel för litteratur- och fakta-sökning. Dessutom finns fylliga introduktioner till litteraturen inom några för Afrikastudier centrala ämnesområden: politik, ekonomi, historia, antropologi, geografi och utbildningsfrågor. I första hand riktar sig boken till studerande och forskare, men även lärare, journalister och bibliotekarier med flera har nytta av den. Bidragen är skrivna av bibliotekarier och forskare med lång erfarenhet av det moderna Afrika: Kristina Rylander (red.), Tore Linné Eriksen, Ingemar Gustafsson, Katarina Hjortsäter, Birgitte Jansen, Peter Kinlund, Christer Krokfors, António Lourenço, Åsa Lund Moberg och Knut G. Nustad.
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Att studera Afrika : vägar till källorna
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Att studera Afrika är en guide till Afrikastudier inom främst det samhällsvetenskapliga området. Både tryckta och internetbaserade informationskällor behandlas i denna nya, grundligt uppdaterade upplaga. Boken ger praktist vägledning till en rad hjälpmedel för litteratur- och faktasökning. Dessutom finns fylliga introduktioner till litteraturen inom ämnesområdena historia, politik och ekonomi. Boken vänder sig i första hand till studerande och forskare, men även lärare, journalister och bibliotekarier med flera har nytta av den.
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- Bjarnesen, Jesper, 1977-
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Back in Youth : Social Unbecoming in the Study of West African Masculinities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Africa Spectrum. - 0002-0397 .- 1868-6869. ; 58:3, s. 247-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- African youth became a central research theme in anthropology and related disciplines in the early 2000s, drawing renewed attention to the lives and aspirations of a segment of the continent's population that, since the independence era, has become increasingly demographically dominant but socially and politically marginalised. Reflecting on an extended case study of male ex-combatants in urban Burkina Faso, this paper offers a critical reading of the anthropological scholarship on African youth, emphasising, first, that much of this literature is most usefully read as studies of diverse (West) African masculinities and, second, that the literature has underplayed the extent to which achievements of social progression tend to be acutely reversible in contexts of precarity or radical social change, throwing the unfortunate, as it were, back in youth.
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