ISBN:
9780190074647
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxvi, 247 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Issues of globalization
Series Statement:
case studies in contemporary anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Alexander-Nathani, Isabella Burning at Europe's borders
DDC:
305.896/064
Keywords:
Immigrants Social conditions 21st century
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Refugees Social conditions 21st century
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Refugees Social conditions 21st century
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Africans Migrations
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Blacks Social conditions 21st century
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Ethnology
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Morocco Race relations
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Morocco Emigration and immigration
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Social aspects
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Africa, Sub-Saharan Emigration and immigration
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Social aspects
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Marokko
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Grenzgebiet
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Afrikanischer Einwanderer
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Rassismus
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Migration
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Feldforschung
Abstract:
« In her heart-pounding and courageous debut, Dr. Isabella Alexander-Nathani uncovers an unseen side of our global migrant and refugee crisis. ‚Burning at Europe's Borders’ invites readers inside the lives of the world's largest population of migrants and refugees--the hundreds of thousands who are trapped in hidden forest camps and forgotten detention centers at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa. "Hrig," the Arabic term for "illegal immigration," translates to "burning." It signifies a migrant's decision to burn their papers, in order to avoid identification and repatriation on their long journeys to safer shores. But it also signifies their decision to burn their past lives, sacrificing themselves in hopes of reaching a future on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea. Alexander-Nathani examines this process of "burning," traveling thousands of miles alongside those who have fled war and extreme poverty across the African continent only to find themselves trapped in Libya, Algeria, and Morocco. This book exposes the political agreements that have led to Europe's control over African borders and the illicit practices that continue to mold North African countries into brutal holding cells for our world's most vulnerable. ‘Burning at Europe's Borders’ introduces new ways of doing anthropological research in the modern era, as Alexander-Nathani skillfully weaves images and individual stories into her analysis of changing migration flows at our world's most critical border crossings. Her creative mixed-methods approach included community filmmaking practices and over three years of ethnographic research in African smuggling rings, hidden migrant brotherhoods, and European Union-funded detention centers. This is an ideal cross-over book, promising to engage students, scholars, policymakers, and popular audiences seeking to step inside the heart of our world's greatest humanitarian crisis. « (Verlagsbeschreibung)
Abstract:
"This ethnography introduces students to the rapidly expanding and largely overlooked migrant and refugee crisis at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa, examining how the physical and symbolic ritual of burning shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-243
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At the crossroads : Africa on the map of human migrations
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Colony, monarchy, Muslim democracy : Morocco as the new "destination" for African migrants
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Vulnerability and the gendering of political status
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Burning yesterday for tomorrow : images from the in between
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"Le péril noir" : the racialization of political status
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