Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Argonauts Of West Africa Unauthorized Migration And Kinship Dynamics In A Changing Europe
Author(s): Andrikopoulos Apostolos
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226822624
Pages: 224 Pages, 9 Halftones, 4 Tables
Publication Date: 5/10/2023
Category: Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies