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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in anthropology ; 30.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315659916
  • 9781317335467
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 304.8096 H791
LOC classification:
  • JV8790 .H67 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction : studying hope and uncertainty in African migration / Nauja Kleist -- 2. How to extract hope from papers? Classificatory performances and social networking in Cape Verdean visa applications / Heike Drotbohm -- 3. Sticking to God : brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina / Ida Marie Vammen -- 4. Zouglou music and youth in urban Burkina Faso : displacement and the social performance of hope / Jesper Bjarnesen -- 5. 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 -- 6. Prospective moments, eternal salvation : the production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi ØSTBØ Haugen -- 7. Hope and uncertainty in Senegalese migration to Spain : taking chances on emigration but not upon return / Maria Hernandez-Carretero -- 8. The migratory adventure as a moral experience / Sylvie Bredeloup -- 9. Death of a gin salesman : hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger / Hans Lucht -- 10. Returning with nothing but an empty bag : topographies of social hope after deportation to Ghana / Nauja Kleist.
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1. Introduction : studying hope and uncertainty in African migration / Nauja Kleist -- 2. How to extract hope from papers? Classificatory performances and social networking in Cape Verdean visa applications / Heike Drotbohm -- 3. Sticking to God : brokers of hope in Senegalese migration to Argentina / Ida Marie Vammen -- 4. Zouglou music and youth in urban Burkina Faso : displacement and the social performance of hope / Jesper Bjarnesen -- 5. 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 -- 6. Prospective moments, eternal salvation : the production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China / Heidi ØSTBØ Haugen -- 7. Hope and uncertainty in Senegalese migration to Spain : taking chances on emigration but not upon return / Maria Hernandez-Carretero -- 8. The migratory adventure as a moral experience / Sylvie Bredeloup -- 9. Death of a gin salesman : hope and despair among Ghanaian migrants and deportees stranded in Niger / Hans Lucht -- 10. Returning with nothing but an empty bag : topographies of social hope after deportation to Ghana / Nauja Kleist.

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