عنوان

Mobilities and Sediments:

شماره

LA107497

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Mobilities and Sediments:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Spatial Dynamics in the Context of Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe

نام نخستين پديدآور

Joris Schapendonk

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). In this paper I take a different perspective by approaching migrants' journeys as open and dynamic phenomena that evolve 'en route'. I present an analytical lens that takes different mobilities (of people, goods, information, etc.) as the starting point to investigate these migration journeys. With this mobilities lens I analyze in detail three trajectories of African migrants who are moving to the EU. In order to avoid a simple 'everything is mobile' argument, I subsequently explore the role of the geographical concept of 'place' in the facilitation of these migration journeys. I thereby take into account places as geographical localities as well as migrants' places in their social networks. Finally, I illustrate how mobilities, in turn, bring their 'sediments'. This means that they change and give meaning to places. This reciprocal way of relating mobilities to places helps us to go beyond both individualistic and structuralistic explanations of migration. Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). In this paper I take a different perspective by approaching migrants' journeys as open and dynamic phenomena that evolve 'en route'. I present an analytical lens that takes different mobilities (of people, goods, information, etc.) as the starting point to investigate these migration journeys. With this mobilities lens I analyze in detail three trajectories of African migrants who are moving to the EU. In order to avoid a simple 'everything is mobile' argument, I subsequently explore the role of the geographical concept of 'place' in the facilitation of these migration journeys. I thereby take into account places as geographical localities as well as migrants' places in their social networks. Finally, I illustrate how mobilities, in turn, bring their 'sediments'. This means that they change and give meaning to places. This reciprocal way of relating mobilities to places helps us to go beyond both individualistic and structuralistic explanations of migration. Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). In this paper I take a different perspective by approaching migrants' journeys as open and dynamic phenomena that evolve 'en route'. I present an analytical lens that takes different mobilities (of people, goods, information, etc.) as the starting point to investigate these migration journeys. With this mobilities lens I analyze in detail three trajectories of African migrants who are moving to the EU. In order to avoid a simple 'everything is mobile' argument, I subsequently explore the role of the geographical concept of 'place' in the facilitation of these migration journeys. I thereby take into account places as geographical localities as well as migrants' places in their social networks. Finally, I illustrate how mobilities, in turn, bring their 'sediments'. This means that they change and give meaning to places. This reciprocal way of relating mobilities to places helps us to go beyond both individualistic and structuralistic explanations of migration. Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). In this paper I take a different perspective by approaching migrants' journeys as open and dynamic phenomena that evolve 'en route'. I present an analytical lens that takes different mobilities (of people, goods, information, etc.) as the starting point to investigate these migration journeys. With this mobilities lens I analyze in detail three trajectories of African migrants who are moving to the EU. In order to avoid a simple 'everything is mobile' argument, I subsequently explore the role of the geographical concept of 'place' in the facilitation of these migration journeys. I thereby take into account places as geographical localities as well as migrants' places in their social networks. Finally, I illustrate how mobilities, in turn, bring their 'sediments'. This means that they change and give meaning to places. This reciprocal way of relating mobilities to places helps us to go beyond both individualistic and structuralistic explanations of migration.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

117-142

عنوان

African Diaspora

شماره جلد

5/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1872-5465

اصطلاح موضوعی

African migration

اصطلاح موضوعی

European Union

اصطلاح موضوعی

immigration africaine

اصطلاح موضوعی

mobilités

اصطلاح موضوعی

mobilities turn

اصطلاح موضوعی

mobility

اصطلاح موضوعی

notion de lieu

اصطلاح موضوعی

place

اصطلاح موضوعی

Union européenne

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Joris Schapendonk

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18725457-12341234

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y