Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa - Softcover

Gaibazzi, Paolo

 
9781785338274: Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

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Its empirical and theoretical treatment of immobility and sedentariness as neglected aspects in migration and mobility studies. No book-length work dedicated to immobility exists as yet. Unique in the analytical extent to which immobility and migration are shown to be intertwined and pervade agrarian life. Offers novel takes on classic anthropological debates about social reproduction and peasant communities in the context of globalization and migrant transnationalism. Focuses on rural youth, on their transition to adulthood and on their role in regenerating the traditional social order.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola. 

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