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041 0 _aEnglish
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100 1 _aBelloni, Milena
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245 1 0 _aThe Big Gamble : The Migration of Eritreans to Europe
260 _aOakland
_bUniversity of California Press
_c2019
300 _a1 electronic resource (243 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aWhy, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to reach European countries where their long-term prospects are often dismal? The Big Gamble answers these questions through a multi-sited ethnography with refugees, their families back, smugglers and relatives in the diaspora. By visiting family homes in Eritrea, living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan and Italy, the author untangles everyday challenges as well as images, desires and feelings of young Eritreans pursuing their desired destination in a context of protracted crisis and long-term displacement. Throughout the book the author shows the importance of recognizing the space for choices in contemporary refugee movements. It argues that imagination, morality and emotion are crucial elements to understand the trajectories and the motivations of those who bet not only their resources but also their lives to seek asylum in Europe.
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aSociology
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650 7 _aAnthropology
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653 _aforced migration
653 _amulti-sited ethnography
653 _aEritreans
653 _aEurope
653 _aimmobility
653 _aprotracted displacement
653 _arefugee movements
653 _aimaginaries
653 _amoral economies
653 _atransnational families
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