Spaces in Movement: New Perspectives on Migration in African Settings (Conference) (2011 : Bamako, Mali) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014151406
Title:
Spaces in movement : new perspectives on migration in African settings / edited by Mustafa Abdalla, Denise Dias Barros & Marina Berthet.
Publisher:
Rüdiger Köppe Verlag,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
205 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Proceedings of a workshop/seminar of the same title held in Bamako, Mali, January 2011, hosted by the NGO, Point Sud: Center for Research on Local Knowledge, and financed by the German Research Foundation, DFG. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Becoming by moving : Khartoum and Addis Ababa as migratory stages between Eritrea and "something" / Magnus Treiber. D'un savoir faire à l'autre : migration et transformations sociales en Afrique, le cas des migrants maliens / Bréhima Kassibo and Pierre Cissé -- The resonance of travel in a Dogon village : pilgrimage experience, mobility and social change in Songho, Mali / Denise Dias Barros and Mustafa Abdalla -- Des pratiques religieuses dans la mobilité aux figures religieuses de la migration africaine / Sophie Bava -- Islam, migration estudiantine et espace en mouvement : la réponse des établissements supérieurs privés et des associations islamiques burkinabé / Abdoul Hadi Pingréwaoga Béma Savadogo -- Migration, marriage, and modernity : motives, impacts, and negotiations of rural-urban circulation among young women in northern Ghana / Christian Ungruhe -- Fluid autonomies : male mobility and the changing position of females in Upper Egypt / Senni Jyrkiäinen -- Non-migrant, sedentary, immobile, or "left behind"? Reflections on the absence of migration / Gunvor Jónsson -- Ceux qui sont de passage et ceux qui restent : l'émigration capverdienne à São Tomé et Principe / Marina Berthet -- Becoming by moving : Khartoum and Addis Ababa as migratory stages between Eritrea and "something" / Magnus Treiber.
Summary:
"[T]his edited volume is an attempt to cover a range of pressing questions on modern migration by Africans within Africa."--Page 10.
Series:
Topics in interdisciplinary African studies ; v. 35
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