Invisibility in African displacements From structural marginalization to strategies of avoidance

• Autres auteurs: Bjarnesen, Jesper (Éditeur intellectuel), Turner, Simon (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Uppsala; London The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) 2020
• Collection: Africa Now
• Sujets: Refugees & political asylum; Africa; Emigration; Immigration; Migration; Migrants; Refugees; Displaced persons; Marginality; Case studies; Africans; Diaspora; Livelihood
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

African migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards discouraging and policing their movements. What...