Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road
edited by Alessandro Triulzi, Università di Napoli-L’Orientale and Robert McKenzie, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
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Biographical note
Alessandro Triulzi is Professor of Sub-Saharan African History at L’Orientale University of Naples. He has published extensively on Ethiopian history, colonial photography and postcolonial violence. He is responsible for the Archive of Migrant Memories in Rome.
Robert Lawrence McKenzie is an expert on governance, politics, and regional security in North Africa and the Middle East. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Robert is also a doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His doctoral thesis examines the lives of sub-Saharan refugees in Cairo, Egypt.
Robert Lawrence McKenzie is an expert on governance, politics, and regional security in North Africa and the Middle East. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Robert is also a doctoral candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His doctoral thesis examines the lives of sub-Saharan refugees in Cairo, Egypt.
Readership
All interested in transnational mobility in the contemporary world, including academicians, policy makers, aid workers, activists, and general readers concerned with the complexity of African migration to Europe.
Table of contents
Contents
1. Preamble – Home: a poem by Warsan Shire (London)
2. Prologue - A Migrant’s Last Journey: a short story, by Kevin Eze (Dakar, Senegal)
3. Introduction - Listening to migrant voices, by Robert McKenzie (SOAS, London) and Alessandro Triulzi (Orientale University of Naples, Italy)
4. Sub-Saharan African Migrants Heading North: a mobility perspective, by Joris Schapendonk (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
5.Nigerian Border Crossers: Women Travelling to Europe by Land, by Kristin Kastner (Goethe University, Germany)
6. High-risk Migration: From Senegal to the Canary Islands by Sea, by Miranda Poeze (University of Maastricht, Netherlands)
7. Stranded in Mauritania: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Post-Transit Context, by Armelle Choplin (Paris-Est University, France) and Jérôme Lombard (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)
8. Untangling Immobility in Transit. Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Istanbul, by Brigitte Suter (Malmö University, Sweden)
9. Marabouts and Migrations: Senegalese between Dakar and Diaspora, by Amber Gemmeke (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
10. ‘Today, I Would Never Go to Europe’: Mobility for Resources and Local Development in West Africa, by Laurence Marfaing, Hamburg University, Germany)
11. Migration, Class and Symbolic Status: Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece, by Apostolos Andrikopoulos, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12. Lessons for life: two migratory portraits from Eritrea, by Magnus Treiber, University of Bayreuth, Germany)
13. ‘Like a plate of spaghetti’: Migrant Voices from the Libya-Lampedusa route, by Alessandro Triulzi (Orientale University of Naples, Italy)
14. Epilogue – Our Journey: a narrative, by Dagmawi Yimer (Rome, Italy)
Notes on contributors
Index
1. Preamble – Home: a poem by Warsan Shire (London)
2. Prologue - A Migrant’s Last Journey: a short story, by Kevin Eze (Dakar, Senegal)
3. Introduction - Listening to migrant voices, by Robert McKenzie (SOAS, London) and Alessandro Triulzi (Orientale University of Naples, Italy)
4. Sub-Saharan African Migrants Heading North: a mobility perspective, by Joris Schapendonk (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
5.Nigerian Border Crossers: Women Travelling to Europe by Land, by Kristin Kastner (Goethe University, Germany)
6. High-risk Migration: From Senegal to the Canary Islands by Sea, by Miranda Poeze (University of Maastricht, Netherlands)
7. Stranded in Mauritania: Sub-Saharan Migrants in Post-Transit Context, by Armelle Choplin (Paris-Est University, France) and Jérôme Lombard (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)
8. Untangling Immobility in Transit. Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Istanbul, by Brigitte Suter (Malmö University, Sweden)
9. Marabouts and Migrations: Senegalese between Dakar and Diaspora, by Amber Gemmeke (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
10. ‘Today, I Would Never Go to Europe’: Mobility for Resources and Local Development in West Africa, by Laurence Marfaing, Hamburg University, Germany)
11. Migration, Class and Symbolic Status: Nigerians in the Netherlands and Greece, by Apostolos Andrikopoulos, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12. Lessons for life: two migratory portraits from Eritrea, by Magnus Treiber, University of Bayreuth, Germany)
13. ‘Like a plate of spaghetti’: Migrant Voices from the Libya-Lampedusa route, by Alessandro Triulzi (Orientale University of Naples, Italy)
14. Epilogue – Our Journey: a narrative, by Dagmawi Yimer (Rome, Italy)
Notes on contributors
Index
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