181846683X     

Argonauts of West Africa : unauthorized migration and kinship dynamics in a changing Europe / Apostolos Andrikopoulos

Andrikopoulos, Apostolos [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023

201 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Englisch

Navigating kinship -- Unauthorized identity craft -- "Working with my sister's papers" -- Dying relations? -- Marriage, love, and inequality -- Conclusion: unpredictable dynamics of kinship.

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-82260-0 (cloth); 978-0-226-82262-4 (paperback)

978-0-226-82261-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022032906

OCoLC: 1381816643     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.7208/chicago/9780226822617.001.0001

LB 56625  | MS 3600      Ähnliche Literatur

DJ92.A47

362.84/960492352

LOC-SH: Africans -- Kinship -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam ; Africans -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Social conditions ; Africans -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam ; Noncitizens -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Social conditions ; Illegal immigration -- Netherlands

"Argonauts of West Africa examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe. In a rapidly changing and highly precarious context, migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability. Through the exchange of identity documents, assistance in obtaining such documentation, marriage, or cohabitation, new kinship dynamics are continually made and remade to navigate the shifting demands of European states. These new kinship relations, however, often prove unreliable, taking on new, unexpected dynamics in the face of codependency; they become more difficult to control than those who entered into such relations could have imagined. Through unusually close ethnographic work in West African migrant communities in Amsterdam, Apostolos Andrikopoulos reveals unseen dynamics of "siblinghood" through shared papers, the tensions of race and gender that develop in mutually beneficial marriages, and the vast, informal networks of people, information, and documentation on which migrants rely. Throughout, Andrikopoulos demonstrates how inequality, exclusionary practices, and the changing policies of an often-violent state demand new forms of kinship to successfully navigate complex migration routes"--