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Author: Jesper Bjarnesen (Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden) ,
Simon Turner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Weight: 0.581kg
ISBN: 9781786999191
ISBN 10: 1786999196
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 October 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
An important book that highlights African migrants' agency in the face of structures of inequality and violence. It offers invaluable insights into the processes of invisibility and visibility that mark the trajectories of African migrant encounters with the global migration industry. The accounts provided challenge the normalization of border enforcing mechanisms that work to exclude and distance Africans while living off the wealth extracted from the continent. * Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester * The book shows, in diverse African situations, migrants' capacities of negotiation and their genuine agency, even in the most precarious and unfavourable contexts. * Through the use of case studies, the authors question the bureaucratic categories and oppose them with their meticulous understanding of social and political process of categorization. Thus, they implement the necessary independence of research vis-a-vis the powers and the state-centered point of view.' *
'An important book that highlights African migrants' agency in the face of structures of inequality and violence. It offers invaluable insights into the processes of invisibility and visibility that mark the trajectories of African migrant encounters with the global migration industry. The accounts provided challenge the normalization of border enforcing mechanisms that work to exclude and distance Africans while living off the wealth extracted from the continent.' Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester 'The book shows, in diverse African situations, migrants' capacities of negotiation and their genuine agency, even in the most precarious and unfavourable contexts. Through the use of case studies, the authors question the bureaucratic categories and oppose them with their meticulous understanding of social and political process of categorization. Thus, they implement the necessary independence of research vis-a-vis the powers and the state-centered point of view.' Michel Agier, Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences sociales
An important book that highlights African migrants' agency in the face of structures of inequality and violence. It offers invaluable insights into the processes of invisibility and visibility that mark the trajectories of African migrant encounters with the global migration industry. The accounts provided challenge the normalization of border enforcing mechanisms that work to exclude and distance Africans while living off the wealth extracted from the continent. * Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester * The book shows, in diverse African situations, migrants' capacities of negotiation and their genuine agency, even in the most precarious and unfavourable contexts. * Through the use of case studies, the authors question the bureaucratic categories and oppose them with their meticulous understanding of social and political process of categorization. Thus, they implement the necessary independence of research vis-a-vis the powers and the state-centered point of view.' * [T]his book adds valuable empirical and theoretical empirical insight into the dynamics of in/visibility ... Invisibility in African Displacements is a valuable look beyond categories of displacement, paying attention to the realities of how these legal, political and bureaucratic inscriptions shape people's lives. ... [T]he book is a success. * Progress in Development Studies *
Author Information
Jesper Bjarnesen is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden, working on regional and war-related mobilities in West Africa, with a focus on inter-generational relations and urban youth culture in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. Bjarnesen has published articles in Migration Letters, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, and Anthropology Southern Africa and edited a theme section of Conflict and Society. He also co-edited a special issue of the journal Africa and was co-editor of Violence in African Elections (Zed 2018). Simon Turner is Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He works on forced displacement, diaspora, conflict and humanitarianism in the African Great Lakes region and on Europe. He has worked on a project on anticipating violence in the Burundi conflict and another on carceral junctions in European refugee policies. He is the author of Politics of Innocence: Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life (2010), the editor of journal article Diasporic Tensions: The Dilemmas and Conflicts of Transnational Engagement (2008) and the co-editor of journal article Agents of Change - Staging and Governing Diasporas and the African State (2013).
