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The Challenge of the Threshold - Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa (Paperback)
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The Challenge of the Threshold - Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa (Paperback)
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The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration
flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of
migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in
the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of
migration. But their effect can also be felt in migrant categories
and identities and in the perceptions of migrants in the societies
through which they transit or the communities which they have left
behind. By placing the problem of border control at the very heart
of the migration issue, the policies aimed at the restriction of
migration flows have changed the meaning and significance of
migration. More than ever before, both migrants and institutions in
charge of border control construe migration mostly around the
challenge of border-crossing. In the Global South, the transit
situation in which would-be border jumpers are retained blurs the
distinction between temporary migration and settlement. This
contributes to change, in various ways, the relationship to
strangers, from renewed forms of solidarities to the reactivation
of latent xenophobic sentiment, whether around the Mediterranean or
en route towards South Africa, the other migration hub on the
continent. The editors of this volume have decided to work on the
notion of "threshold" as an operative concept for addressing the
multiple dimensions of the issue: the discursive and conceptual
frameworks that constitute the backbone of threshold policies
aiming to keep undesirables beyond borders; the constitution of
stopping places, intermediate areas and relay towns, which all
represent threshold spaces that challenge local urban equilibria;
and the experience of liminality, in which individuals caught for a
time between two states (as migrant on the road and as immigrant,
the state to which they aspire), experience the typically ambiguous
situations characteristic of 'threshold people' (Turner). While
ambitioning to innovate theoretically and methodologically, the
volume is above all
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