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Disentangling Mining and Migratory Routes in West Africa: Decisions to Move in Migranticised Settings
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Abstract This article scrutinizes the trajectories of African men whose cross-border movements intersect two types of mobility routes: mining and migration routes. Drawing on field research in Mali and Guinea, as well as phone interviews with male miners/migrants in North Africa and Europe, this article prov... mehr
This article scrutinizes the trajectories of African men whose cross-border movements intersect two types of mobility routes: mining and migration routes. Drawing on field research in Mali and Guinea, as well as phone interviews with male miners/migrants in North Africa and Europe, this article provides a case to empirically question some of the premises in the approach to migration decision-making by giving a voice to African men moving across borders who do not necessarily identify as (prospective) 'migrants.' Building upon International Organization for Migration data and secondary sources, this article starts by sketching where migration and mining routes overlap. It then examines, in detail, the mobility trajectories of men who were sometimes considered migrants and other times miners in order to identify how these different routes relate to one another. While overseas migration is certainly not a common project for itinerant miners, the gold mines constitute a transnational space that fosters the expansion of movements across the continent, including outside the field of mining. Rather than encouraging overseas migration, gold mines appear to be more of a safety net, not only for seasonal farmers or young people in search of money and adventure, but also, increasingly, for people who are confronted with Europe's intra-African deportation regime.... weniger
Klassifikation
Migration
Freie Schlagwörter
Guinea; Mali; North Africa; West Africa; artisanal and small-scale mining; border regime; migration; mobility
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 235-246
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 9 (2021) 1
Heftthema
Decision-Making under Uncertainty: African Migrants in the Spotlight
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)