The Big Gamble, The Migration of Eritreans to Europe

Author

Belloni; Milena

Year

2019

Publisher

University of California Press

Type

BOOK

Description

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and Italy, Milena Belloni untangles the reasons behind one of the most under-researched refugee populations today. Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants’ choices of destinations.

Die zweite Wirklichkeit: Studien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts

Das bisschen Haushalt

Alternative Litigation Financing in the United States, Issues; Knowns; and Unknowns

Arabic Exile Literature in Europe, Defamiliarizing Forced Migration

Begging; Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland,

In het land van de overheerser