Argonauts of West Africa by Apostolos Andrikopoulos (Hardback Book)

Name: Argonauts of West Africa by Apostolos Andrikopoulos (Hardback Book)
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Examines the paradoxes of kinship in the lives of unauthorized African migrants as they struggle for mobility, employment, and citizenship in Europe.\nIn 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 \u201Csiblings,\u201D 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\n\nArgonauts of West Africa\nUnauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal ;