The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in a Disjointed World
Hans Lucht, University of Copenhagen
Hovedinnhold
Abstract:
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Niger, this paper discusses how stranded migrants have become facilitators of the very journey they have failed to make themselves. These connection men, or 'pushers' as they say themselves, are now key actors in high-risk migration across the Sahara Desert via Libya to Europe. They have somehow turned all their misfortunes into a form of capital, while awaiting a new chance to go to Europe.
Bionote:
Hans Lucht is a senior researcher and journalist at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. His book on undocumented migration from West Africa to Europe (Darkness before Daybreak – African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today) won the 2012 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology.
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