Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Challenge of the threshold
DDC:
304.8096
Keywords:
Africans Migrations
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Globalization Social aspects
;
Emigration and immigration Government policy
;
Internal security
;
Migration, Internal
;
Emigration and immigration ; Government policy
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Africans ; Migrations
;
Internal security
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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Migration, Internal
;
Globalization ; Social aspects
;
Africa Emigration and immigration
;
Europe Emigration and immigration
;
Africa
;
Europe
Abstract:
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 a
Abstract:
pt. 1. Threshold policies: discourses and practices of control and closure -- pt. 2. Threshold spaces: itineraries, stages, and places of transport -- pt. 3. Threshold people: the experience and imaginary dimension of travel, migrant sociability, and routes to individualism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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