Invisibility in African Displacements - From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance

African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards discouraging and policing their movements. What is rarely understood or scrutinised however, are the intricate ways in which African migrants are marginalised and excluded from public discourse; not only in Europe but in migrant-receiving contexts across the globe. offers a series of case studies that explore these dynamics. What tends to be either ignored or demonised in public debates on African migration are the deliberate strategies of avoidance or assimilation that migrants make use of to gain access to the destinations or opportunities they seek, or to remain below the radar of restrictive governance regimes.This books offers fine-grained analysis of the ways in which African migrants negotiate structural and strategic invisibilities, adding innovative approaches to our understanding of both migrant vulnerabilities and resilience.>

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• Authors: Jesper Bjarnesen, Jesper Turner Bjarnesen, Simon Turner
• Assisted by: Jesper Bjarnesen (Editor), Jesper (Nordic Africa Institute Bjarnesen (Editor), Doctor Simon Turner (Editor), Simon Turner (Editor), Simon (University of Copenhagen Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781786999191
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-919-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Africa Now
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sudan, Buenos Aires, Nigeria, World, Niger, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, France, Burundi, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Africa, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Kenya, Rwanda, immigration law, Chad, Paris (City), Migration, immigration and emigration, Central Africa, West Africa, Population and Demography, Political control and freedoms, Political ideologies and movements, Refugees & Political Asylum, Asylum Law, Population and migration geography