Bushfalling at All Cost: The Economy of Migratory Knowledge in Anglophone Cameroon
TLDR
In this article, the authors lay out the social rationalities of aspiring migrants, as well as the economic, symbolic and informational context of their emigration decisions, and analyze how information on emigration is controlled, processed, and evaluated.Abstract:
Despite high financial costs, deportations and many frustrated departure attempts, young Anglophone Cameroonians maintain high aspirations for migration. In this article, I lay out the social rationalities of aspiring migrants, as well as the economic, symbolic and informational context of their emigration decisions. On the basis of three case studies, I analyze how information on emigration is controlled, processed, and evaluated. While discourses within migration policy often posit that aspiring migrants are naive and uninformed, I demonstrate how migration choices and strategies are developed under circumstances more complex than can be grasped by the simplistic alternative between being informed or not informed about migratory risks. Rather than to consider flows of information, I argue what matters is whether or not information is trusted and how it is interpreted. By looking at the costs and gains of migration from the standpoint of aspiring migrants, this article shifts the focus towards migration dynamics at the point of departure.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration
Jørgen Carling,Kerilyn Schewel +1 more
TL;DR: It is a refreshingly simple thought that migration is the combined result of two factors: the aspiration to migrate and the ability to migrate as discussed by the authors, without having to resort to overly structural or indi...
Journal ArticleDOI
What happens post-deportation? The experience of deported Afghans
Liza Schuster,Nassim Majidi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine possible post-deportation outcomes and draw on a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data gathered in Europe and Afghanistan to argue that many deported Afghans at- tempt and succeed in re-migrating.
Journal ArticleDOI
New directions in exploring the migration industries: introduction to special issue
TL;DR: This article reviewed existing research on migration industries to look at how this explores questions on how migration industries foster, assist, and constrain migration, arguing that these questions have primarily been approached from three different perspectives: structuralist, labour market and mobilities, but these perspectives often speak past rather than to one another.
References
More filters
Book
The Making of the English Working Class
TL;DR: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the study of undocumented migration as an epistemological, methodological, and political problem, in order to then formulate it as a theoretical problem, and argue that it is necessary also to produce historically informed accounts of the sociopolitical processes of "illegalization" themselves, which can be characterized as the legal production.
Posted Content
The new economics of labor migration
Oded Stark,David E. Bloom +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed selected theoretical and empirical developments in the field of labor migration economics and found that the migration behavior of individuals differs in accordance with their perceived relative deprivation; those who were relatively more deprived tend to have stronger incentive to migrate than those who are relatively less deprived, while a reference group characterized by more income inequality is likely to generate more relative deprivation.
Posted Content
Migration in the Age of Involuntary Immobility: Theoretical Reflections and Cape Verdean Experiences
Jørgen Carling,Jørgen Carling +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the authors examined how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people's individual characteristics and their common emigration environment and investigated how potential migrants' ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface.
Journal ArticleDOI
Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of emigration from Cape Verde, the authors examined how aspirations are formed in the interplay between people's individual characteristics and their common emigration environment and investigated how potential migrants' ability to migrate is determined in their encounter with the immigration interface.