- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "Every year, tens of thousands of Eritreans risk their lives making perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea. Why do they face such an ordeal to reach European countries where long-term prospects are often dismal? The Big Gamble is a vivid ethnography about one of the most under-researched refugee populations today and their efforts to escape chronic crisis. Author Milena Belloni visited family homes in Eritrea and lived with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan and Italy to untangle the multiple reasons behind current migration from the Horn of Africa to Europe. Chronic crisis back home, limited prospects in the country of initial asylum, as well as transnational family expectations push migrants in complex journeys across countries and continents 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. The book reveals how shared imagination and morality are critical to understanding the trajectories and the motivations of those willing to risk everything for asylum in Europe"--
- Uniform Title
- Big gamble (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Big gamble (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (197-224 pages) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Terms of Use (note)
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [CC-BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy of the license, visit
- Contents
- When migration becomes the norm -- Hyper-mobile and immobile: diverse responses to protracted displacement in Ethiopia and Sudan -- An endless journey: transnational and peer pressure in onwards migration in Europe -- The moralities of border crossing: inside the world of smuggling and transnational marriages -- Entrapped: making sense of high-risk migration through gambling.
- ISBN
- 9780520970755
- LCCN
- 2019021373
- OCLC
- ssj0002409808
- Author
Belloni, Milena, 1985-
- Title
The big gamble [electronic resource] : the migration of Eritreans to Europe / Milena Belloni.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (197-224 pages) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Terms Of Use
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [CC-BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses.
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