ISBN:
9780520270732
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9780520270718
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9781283278560
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 284 p)
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map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Darkness before Daybreak
DDC:
305.896/67045731
Keywords:
Fishers Economic conditions
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Immigrants Social conditions
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Ghanaians Social conditions
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Senya Beraku (Ghana) Economic conditions
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Naples (Italy) Emigration and immigration
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Ghana Emigration and immigration
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Naples (Italy) Ethnic relations
Abstract:
This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around the world, Darkness before Daybreak reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants who, like countless others, are often in the news but are rarely understood. Hans Lucht tells how these men live on the fringes of society in Naples, what the often deadly journey across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea involved, and
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. Losses and gains in Naplespt. 2. The journey to Europe -- pt. 3. In the village of the lost captains.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
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