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

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Routledge studies in anthropology ; 33
Routledge studies in anthropology ; 33.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 13, 2016).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / María Hernández-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.
Subject Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
African diaspora -- Case studies.
Hope -- Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
African diaspora. (OCoLC)fst00799755
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Hope. (OCoLC)fst00960068
Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Added Author Kleist, Nauja, editor.
Thorsen, Dorte, editor.
ISBN 9781317335481 (electronic book)
1317335481 (electronic book)
9781315659916 (electronic book)
1315659913 (electronic book)
9781138961210
1138961213
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