Tanzanian migration imaginaries
The European continent has been so inundated by images of African migrants trying to enter ‘fortress Europe’ that many Europeans now uncritically assume that the majority of Africans wants to emigrate. But how do Africans themselves imagine such migratory process? Based on ongoing fieldwork in Tanza...
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2010
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| description | The European continent has been so inundated by images of African migrants trying to enter ‘fortress Europe’ that many Europeans now uncritically assume that the majority of Africans wants to emigrate. But how do Africans themselves imagine such migratory process? Based on ongoing fieldwork in Tanzania, this paper critically explores the currently dominant imaginaries of migratory movements in function of the desire to belong to a broader imagined cosmopolis (often the one depicted in entertainment media). |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a71f4e80-7bf7-4486-b72f-ce962e8f8dab2022-03-27T02:52:20ZTanzanian migration imaginariesWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:a71f4e80-7bf7-4486-b72f-ce962e8f8dabMigrationEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetInternational Migration Institute2010Salazar, NThe European continent has been so inundated by images of African migrants trying to enter ‘fortress Europe’ that many Europeans now uncritically assume that the majority of Africans wants to emigrate. But how do Africans themselves imagine such migratory process? Based on ongoing fieldwork in Tanzania, this paper critically explores the currently dominant imaginaries of migratory movements in function of the desire to belong to a broader imagined cosmopolis (often the one depicted in entertainment media). |
| spellingShingle | Migration Salazar, N Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title | Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title_full | Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title_fullStr | Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title_short | Tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| title_sort | tanzanian migration imaginaries |
| topic | Migration |
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