Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 12
1 Introduction: Studying Hope and Uncertainty in African Migration......Page 16
2 How to Extract Hope from Papers? Classificatory Performances and Social Networking in Cape Verdean Visa Applications......Page 36
3 Sticking to God: Brokers of Hope in Senegalese Migration to Argentina......Page 55
4 Zouglou Music and Youth in Urban Burkina Faso: Displacement and the Social Performance of Hope......Page 73
5 The Lack of Liberty Drove Us There: Spatialized Instantiations of Hope and Contested Diasporan Identity in the Liberian– American Transnational Field (1810-2010)......Page 91
6 Prospective Moments, Eternal Salvation: The Production of Hope in Nigerian Pentecostal Churches in China......Page 109
7 Hope and Uncertainty in Senegalese Migration to Spain: Taking Chances on Emigration but not Upon Return......Page 128
8 The Migratory Adventure as a Moral Experience......Page 149
9 Death of a Gin Salesman: Hope and Despair among Ghanaian Migrants and Deportees Stranded in Niger......Page 169
10 Returning with Nothing but an Empty Bag: Topographies of Social Hope after Deportation to Ghana......Page 188
Index......Page 208