Tahriib - Journeys Into the Unknown: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration

Simonsen, Anja

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-27
  • 售價: $5,540
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 228
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031278232
  • ISBN-13: 9783031278235
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This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths' tahriib, their 'journey into the unknown'. When young Somali men and women refer to the 'unknown', they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys. This uncertainty is partly due to the laws and policies that restrict the right to cross national boundaries and define their movements as illegal. Based on fieldwork conducted with Somali youth, mainly from Somaliland, the book details their perceptions of the journey and their practices on the way. The author shows how they position themselves in a constantly changing world before and during the so-called migration crisis that began in 2015. A vital part of tahriib is the constant search for information on possible routes ahead, a search that intensifies as the journey progresses. Specific policy responses, such as biometric registration, influence practices of gathering and sharing information. They have implications for the creation and shattering of hope and the experience of time en route. The book demonstrates that tahriib is ultimately about spending one's time wisely and about creating and maintaining hope in what may seem hopeless situations.

作者簡介

Anja Simonsen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on topics such as migration, social invisibility, mobility, Somalis, future prospects, temporality, information, uncertainty, insecurity, clan- and family relations within and across borders, diaspora humanitarianism, European search & rescue operations and biometric technologies.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

安雅·西蒙森(Anja Simonsen)是丹麥哥本哈根大學的人類學助理教授。她的研究專注於移民、社會隱形、流動性、索馬利亞人、未來前景、時間性、資訊、不確定性、不安全感、跨境及境內的宗族和家庭關係、僑民人道主義、歐洲搜救行動以及生物識別技術等主題。