This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It
deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the …

New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and
migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent …

In this introduction, we outline the general conceptual framework that ties the various
contributions to this special issue together. We argue for the importance of anthropology to …

At the roots of many travels to distant destinations, whether in the context of tourism or
migration, are historically laden and socioculturally constructed imaginaries. People …

The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter
1,“the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas …

Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West
Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book …

Why, 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 …

Human mobilities, whether horizontal or vertical, internal or boundary-crossing, are infused
with cultural meaning, manifested in metacultural discourses and imaginaries. While cultural …

The livelihoods of the Fulani mobile pastoralists in the Sahel, West and Central Africa are
characterised by mobility (related to the needs of their animals), extensive social networks …

Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience
of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who …