Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at any cost
Maybritt Jill Alpes, "Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at any cost "
English | ISBN: 1472441117 | 2016 | 234 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1472441117 | 2016 | 234 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Do young West Africans want to go abroad at any cost because they receive too little or erroneous information? Why do they and their families risk large sums of money with migration brokers? How do the risks of illegality and deportation change migration aspirations in West Africa?
This book places trafficking and smuggling within a wider framework of high-risk migration and proposes a novel interpretation of how people manage unwanted and uncertain migration outcomes. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research with aspiring and failed migrants, their families, migration brokers and consulate offices in anglophone Cameroon, the author analyses high-risk migration from the vantage point of people in a place of departure.
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