Invisibility in African Displacements

‘An important book that highlights African migrants’ agency in the face of structures of inequality and violence. It offers invaluable insights into the processes of invisibility and visibility that mark the trajectories of African migrant encounters with the global migration industry. The accounts provided challenge the normalization of border-enforcing mechanisms that work to exclude and distance Africans while living off the wealth extracted from the continent.’

Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK

‘The book shows, in diverse African situations, migrants’ capacities of negotiation and their genuine agency, even in the most precarious and unfavourable contexts. Through the use of case studies, the authors question the bureaucratic categories and oppose them with their meticulous understanding of the social and political process of categorization. Thus, they implement the necessary independence of research vis-a-vis the powers and the state-centred point of view.’

Michel Agier, École des Hautes études en Sciences sociales, France

The book will be presented by the editors, Jesper Bjarnesen, Nordic African Institute (Uppsala University), and Simon Turner, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (University of Copenhagen). There will also be presentations by some of the authors of the individual chapters. Finally, Professor Laura Hammond, School of Oriental and African Societies and Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, African Centre for Migration & Society (University of Witwatersrand) will offer their views on the book and the theme.

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After the launch, AMIS will serve drinks.

Everyone is welcome!