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Argonauts of West Africa - Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (Hardcover)
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Argonauts of West Africa - Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe (Hardcover)
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Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized
African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and
citizenship in Europe. In rapidly changing and highly precarious
contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search
of security, stability, and predictability. Through the exchange of
identity documents between “siblings,” assistance in obtaining
such documentation through kinship networks, and marriages that
provide access to citizenship, new assemblages of kinship are
continually made and remade to navigate the shifting demands of
European states. These new kinship relations, however, often prove
unreliable, taking on new, unexpected dynamics in the face of
codependency; they become more difficult to control than those who
enter into such relations can imagine. Through unusually close
ethnographic work in West African migrant communities in Amsterdam,
Apostolos Andrikopoulos reveals the unseen dynamics of kinship
through shared papers, the tensions of race and gender that develop
in mutually beneficial marriages, and the vast, informal networks
of people, information, and documentation on which migrants rely.
Throughout Argonauts of West Africa, Andrikopoulos demonstrates how
inequality, exclusionary practices, and the changing policies of an
often-violent state demand innovative ways of doing kinship to
successfully navigate complex migration routes.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Apostolos Andrikopoulos
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82260-0 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-226-82260-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780226822600 |
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