Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration
Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration
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当代非洲移民的希望和不确定性
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2016
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D. Thorsen
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N. Kleist;D. Thorsen
本书探讨了非洲移民中希望、流动性和不流动性之间的关系。通过在非洲大陆内外进行的案例研究，它表明，希望为分析在不确定、不平等加剧和限制进入全球法律的流动线路的情况下支持移徙的社会条件和愿望提供了一个独特的棱镜。
这本书的出发点是当代移徙所特有的流动性悖论。虽然世界各地的人们在其他地方接触到越来越多的美好生活的意义，但越来越多的南半球人民很少或根本没有机会获得授权的国际移民模式。本书探讨了非洲移民如何应对这种情况。它以希望为重点，探讨了移民的期望和可能性的时间和空间视野，以及这些视野如何与流动实践联系起来。这种分析是有意义的，因为许多非洲人的生活条件不稳定，流动制度越来越受限制，而移徙继续构成重要的生计战略，并被视为改善的途径。虽然非自愿的不流动性是一个后果，另一个后果是全球南部新兴目的地的出现和巩固。该卷通过对移民原籍国、过境区以及欧洲、北美、中东、拉丁美洲和中国的新目的地和已建立目的地的有经验基础和理论丰富的案例研究，审查了这一发展。因此，它提供了一个关于移徙、希望和不流动之间联系的原创视角，从移徙愿望到回返。
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 that characterizes contemporary migration. Whereas people all over the world are exposed to widening sets of meaning of the good life elsewhere, an increasing number of people in the Global South have little or no access to authorized modes of international migration. This book examines how African migrants respond to this situation. Focusing on hope, it explores migrants’ temporal and spatial horizons of expectation and possibility and how these horizons link to mobility practices. Such analysis is pertinent as precarious life conditions and increasingly restrictive regimes of mobility characterize the lives of many Africans, while migration continues to constitute important livelihood strategies and to be seen as pathways of improvement. Whereas involuntary immobility is one consequence, another is the emergence and consolidation of new destinations emerging in the Global South. The volume examines this development through empirically grounded and theoretically rich case studies in migrants’ countries of origin, zones of transit, and in new and established destinations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Latin America and China. It thereby offers an original perspective on linkages between migration, hope, and immobility, ranging from migration aspirations to return.