{"product_id":"9781786999207","title":"Invisibility in African Displacements : From Structural Marginalization to Strategies of Avoidance","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eInvisibility in African Displacements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican migrants have become increasingly demonised in public debate and political rhetoric. There is much speculation about the incentives and trajectories of Africans on the move, and often these speculations are implicitly or overtly geared towards discouraging and policing their movements. What is rarely understood or scrutinised however, are the intricate ways in which African migrants are marginalised and excluded from public discourse; not only in Europe but in migrant-receiving contexts across the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvisibility in African Displacements \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a series of case studies that explore these dynamics. What tends to be either ignored or demonised in public debates on African migration are the deliberate strategies of avoidance or assimilation that migrants make use of to gain access to the destinations or opportunities they seek, or to remain below the radar of restrictive governance regimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis books offers fine-grained analysis of the ways in which African migrants negotiate structural and strategic invisibilities, adding innovative approaches to our understanding of both migrant vulnerabilities and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An important book that highlights African migrants' agency in the face of structures of inequality and violence. It offers invaluable insights into the processes of invisibility and visibility that mark the trajectories of African migrant encounters with the global migration industry. The accounts provided challenge the normalization of border enforcing mechanisms that work to exclude and distance Africans while living off the wealth extracted from the continent.” —\u003ci\u003eNina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book shows, in diverse African situations, migrants' capacities of negotiation and their genuine agency, even in the most precarious and unfavourable contexts.” —\u003ci\u003eThrough the use of case studies, the authors question the bureaucratic categories and oppose them with their meticulous understanding of social and political process of categorization. Thus, they implement the necessary independence of research vis-a-vis the powers and the state-centered point of view.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781786999207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40809932521678,"sku":"9781786999207","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_6f678830-992a-4dc0-a31a-640d43310be6.jpg?v=1642662516","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781786999207","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}