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

Gaibazzi, Paolo

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

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785338277
ISBN 13 
9781785338274
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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