Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa - Brossura

Gaibazzi, Paolo

 
9781785338274: Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
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ISBN 10: 1785338277 ISBN 13: 9781785338274
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2018

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Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola.



Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1785338277
ISBN 13 
9781785338274
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
218
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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