LEADER 03748oam 22006854a 450 001 9910474055503321 005 20230621141508.0 010 $a9789461663993 010 $a9461663994 010 $a9789461661258 010 $a9461661258 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.11116/9789461663993 035 $a(CKB)2670000000548173 035 $a(EBL)1763068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133933 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12412255 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133933 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11176364 035 $a(PQKB)11420027 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1763068 035 $a(OCoLC)873808736 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35126 035 $a(ScCtBLL)0d9170d3-86bb-477a-abed-9bd18af986b4 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68068 035 $a(oapen)doab68068 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000548173 100 $a20130313d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Global Horizon$eExpectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East /$fedited by Knut Graw & Samuli Schielke 210 $aLeuven$cLeuven University Press$d2021 210 1$aLeuven :$cLeuven University Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ[2012] 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9789058679062 311 08$a9058679063 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction : Reflections on migratory expectations in Africa and beyond / Knut Graw and Samuli Schielke -- On the cause of migration : being and nothingness in the African-European border zone / Knut Graw -- Bushfalling : the making of migratory expectations in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- City on the move : how urban dwellers in Central Africa manage the siren's call of migration / Filip De Boeck -- Spaces in movement : town-village interconnections in West Africa / Denise Dias Barros -- Migration, identity and immobility in a Malian Soninke village / Gunvor Jo?nsson -- "God's time is the best" : religious imagination and the wait for emigration in The Gambia / Paolo Gaibazzi -- The Eiffel Tower and the eye : actualizing modernity between Paris and Ghana / Ann Cassiman -- Literacy, locality, and mobility : writing practices and 'cultural extraversion' in rural Mali / Ai?ssatou Mbodj-Pouye -- Engaging the world on the Alexandria waterfront / Samuli Schielke -- Afterword / Michael Jackson. 330 $aAlthough contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act 606 $aMigration, Internal$zMiddle East 606 $aMigration, Internal$zAfrica 607 $aMiddle East$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aAfrica$xEmigration and immigration 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMigration, Internal 615 0$aMigration, Internal 676 $a304.809 700 $aGraw$b Knut$4edt$01725575 702 $aSchielke$b Joska Samuli 702 $aGraw$b Knut 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910474055503321 996 $aThe Global Horizon$94129070 997 $aUNINA