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- Mengiste, Tekalign Ayalew, 1984-, et al.
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Ethiopian girls narratives of risk and governance of circular migration to the Arabian Gulf
- 2023
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In: Children & society. - 0951-0605 .- 1099-0860.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores Ethiopian girls' narratives of risks and vulnerability during their migratory journeys to, in and from Saudi Arabia. It discusses how risks of depri-vation and abuse that drive girls to leave their homes are sustained during the migration process. The re-search primarily draws on interviews with 35 deported girls from Saudi Arabia to analyse intersecting struc-tural, sociocultural, gendered and personal factors that force them to take these risks. It argues that although Ethiopian girls migrate to escape childhood poverty and vulnerability, these conditions are not averted but reproduced during migration. By foregrounding the ex-periences of deported girls, the article further discusses how the desire to support familial livelihoods engen-ders their circular migration and how multiple actors of migration take advantage of their labour and bodies against the backdrop of limited institutional support systems.
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- Mengiste, Tekalign Ayalew, 1984-
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Struggle for Mobility : Risk, hope and community of knowledge in Eritrean and Ethiopian migration pathways towards Sweden
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- On the basis of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Sweden, Italy, Sudan and Ethiopia during 2013–2015, this study examines the motivations, organizations and impact of overland migratory journeys from Ethiopia and Eritrea across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea to Sweden. The analysis involves the exploring of how migrants strive to prepare, manage and survive the multiple risks and structural barriers they encounter: the exits from Eritrea and Ethiopia, negotiations and contacts with various brokers and facilitators, organized crime and violence, restrictive border controls, passage through the Desert and high Sea and finally, ‘managing the asylum system in Sweden’. Further, it maps how the process of contemporary refugee mobility and multiple transitions is facilitated by the entanglement of transnational social relations and smuggling practices. The study argues for a perspective wherein migration journeys are embedded in and affected by the process of dynamic intergenerational, translocal and transnational social relations, material practices and knowledge productions. It depicts how practices and facilitations of irregular migratory mobility reproduce collective knowledge that refugees mobilize to endure risks during their journey, establishing a community and creating a home after arriving at the destination location.
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