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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jocelyne Streiff-Fenart and Aurelia Segatti - Contributions by Julien Brachet; Lorenzo Gabrielli; Paolo Gaibazzi; Elise Palomares; Anaïk Pian; Philippe Poutignat; Catherine Quiminal; Joris Schapendonk; Aurelia Segatti; Amandine Spire; Jocelyne S Klappentext The containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe and emerging economies like South Africa have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. Drawing on original empirical research, this volume explores the notion of threshold as an operative concept to envisage in turn: the discursive frameworks of containment policies, the challenges to local spaces and their equilibrium, and finally, the sense of liminality experienced by migrants caught in those situations. How does one live when one is 'stuck' in a transit space and situation? European national policies to control and reject transient people have created these spaces and left people trapped in inbetweenness. By focusing on transit spaces and time, this collaborative research initiative speaks to liminality itself. The volume encourages readers to question the more and more ambiguous relationships between individuals and the Nation-State, and the socio- political arrangements taking shape on the margins of states. -- Michel Agier, Centre d'Etudes Africaines How does the EU's restrictive immigration policy affect the migration processes in Africa? In this volume, a group of scholars provide convincing answers to that pressing question based on thorough theoretical work and solid empirical research. A must-read for all interested in understanding contemporary human mobility. -- Martiniello Marco, Universite de Liege This is an unusual book, drawing scholars with divergent interests, perspectives, and geographical expertise to consider the nature of migration into and out of Africa. Every reader will find individual chapters that are provocative and empirically rich. Readers who spend time reviewing all the chapters will undoubtedly come away with new perspectives on human mobility. No longer will we speak about migration in Africa as a singular or insular process. Nor will we accept simple, mechanical or economistic explanations. If nothing else, this book tell us that mobility on the continent is at once highly localized, deeply personal and shaped by global political processes. -- Loren B. Landau, University of the Witwatersrand Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1. Threshold Policies: Discourses and Practices of Control and ClosureChapter 1. European Immigration Policies Outside the Union: An Impact Analysis on Migration Dynamics in North African Transit AreasChapter 2. Regional Integration Policy and Migration Reform in SADC Countries: Whether to Move beyond Bilateralism?Chapter 3. The Manufacture of Transit Border Control, Urban Trends and Migrant Trajectories in Nouadhibou (Mauritania)Chapter 4. The "Discursive Framework" of Development and the Repertoire of Actions of Senegalese Deportee AssociationsPart 2. Threshold Spaces: Itineraries, Stages and Places of TransitChapter 5. Stuck in the Desert: Hampered Mobility among Transit Migrants in Northern NigerChapter 6. Time-Spaces of Transit Migration in West Africa: Life Transitions and Urban Transformations in Lomé (Togo) And Accra (Ghana)Chapter 7. Beyond Departure and Arrival: Analyzing Migration Trajectories of Sub-Saharan African Migrants from a Mobilities PerspectiveChapter 8. Migration in South Africa: Tensions and Post-Apartheid Inter-Ethnic Compromises in a Central District of JohannesburgPart 3. Threshold People: The Experience and Imaginary Dimension of Travel, Migrant Sociability and Routes to IndividuationChapter 9. Ambiguous Europe: Repertoires of Subjectivation Among Prospective Migrants in Bamako, MaliChapter 10. Home as Transit: Would-Be Migrants and Immobility in GambiaChapter 11. Migration at the Level of Individuals. Life T...
