Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration / edited by Nauja Kleist and Dorte Thorsen.

Other author Kleist, Nauja.
Other author Thorsen, Dorte.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2017.
Descriptionxiii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in anthropology ; 30
Contents Introduction : Studying hope and uncertainty in African migration / Nauja Kleist -- How to extract hope from papers? : Classificatory performances and social networking in Cape Verdean visa applications / Heike Drotbohm -- Sticking to God : Brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina / Ida Marie Vammen -- Zouglou music and youth in urban Burkina Faso : Displacement and the social performance of hope / Jesper Bjarnesen -- The lack of liberty drove us there : Spatialized instantiations of hope and contested diasporan identity in the Liberian-American transnational field (1810-2010) / Stephen C. Lubkemann -- Prospective moments, eternal salvation : The production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi ©˜stb©ı Haugen -- Hope and uncertainty in Senegalese migration to Spain : Taking chances on emigration but not upon return / Mar©Ưa Hern©Łndez-Carretero -- The migratory adventure as a moral experience / Sylvie Bredeloup -- Death of a gin salesman : Hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger / Hans Lucht -- Returning with nothing but an empty bag : Topographies of social hope after deportation to Ghana / Nauja Kleist.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2016017845
ISBN9781138961210 (hardback : alk. paper)

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