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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 242
Utgivningsdatum: 2019-12-17
Förlag: University of California Press
Illustrationer: 18 photos, 4 maps, 2 text boxes
Dimensioner: 226 x 152 x 20 mm
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ISBN: 9780520298705

The Big Gamble

Name: The Big Gamble
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Author: Milena Belloni
ISBN: 9780520298705

The Migration of Eritreans to Europe

av Milena Belloni

Häftad, Engelska, 2019-12-17

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and Italy, Milena Belloni untangles the reasons behind one of the most under-researched refugee populations today. Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants choices of destinations.

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Thinking Home on the Move

Paolo Boccagni, Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia, Milena Belloni

Home has been used in social sciences as a description, a metaphor and, more recently, as an emergent concept. The goal of this book is to illustrate its analytical power as a lens on the ways in which migrant and displaced people see their life c...

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"The book is not only a joy to read but has also a very original research design, but it is a must-read for those who study migration motivations." * International Migration * "Bellonis book offers an incredibly rich and insightful analysis, highlighting the importance of analysing migration as a cumulative process, rather than a one-off decision." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "The Big Gamble contributes to critical approaches to the study of contemporary human mobility." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

Milena Belloni is a sociologist at the University of Antwerp. Her doctoral research on Eritrean migration received the 2016 IMISCOE Award. Belloni has published in the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.