Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration

Felicitas Hillmann is head of the Research Unit Regeneration of Cities at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Germany and holds a professorship on Urban Transformation in International Perspective at Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany. Ton van Naerssen is an associate member of the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research (NCBR) at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Ernst Spaan is an assistant professor at Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, and an affiliated lecturer in courses on international migration and development at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• List of Figures, Tables and BoxesSeries Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of Foreign Words and PhrasesNotes on Contributors1. Prologue (Felicitas Hillmann and Ton van Naerssen) Part I: Shaping Trajectories2. On wayfaring and transporting: Understanding the mobility trajectories of African migrants in Europe (Joris Schapendonk)3. Migrant trajectories within the context of demographic, socio-economic and environmental change: Evidence from coastal Ghana (Usha Ziegelmayer and Ernst Spaan)4. South-South migrant trajectories: African traders in China as guoke (Ding Yuan and Ching Lin Pang)Part II: Frictions in Spaces5. Unravelling the legal consciousness of deportation policies through women’s bushfalling narratives in Anglophone Cameroon (Maybritt Jill Alpes)6. Moving across juridical territories in Europe: Migrants under humanitarian protection (Giulia Borri)7. Moving home: Bolivian return migration from Spain in times of crisis (Gery Nijenhuis)Part III: Modifying the Migrant Mental Framework8. Mobilities and mindsets: Locating imagination in transnational migrations (David Kyle, Saara Koikkalainen and Tanaya Dutta Gupta)9. Gazing into the distance: Thresholds of mobility in migrants’ lifeworlds (Lothar Smith, Martin van der Velde and Ton van Naerssen)10. Does policy matter? Journeys to Europe and the dynamics of migration decision-making (Richard Mallett and Jessica Hagen-Zanker)11. Academic mobility and identities: Stories from (ethnic) Chinese students and scholars en Route (Maggi Leung and Rika Theo)12. Epilogue: Mobilities in migration (Ton van Naerssen and Felicitas Hillmann)Index

"The book does what it promises: it focuses its reader’s attention on the increasing variety and flexibility of current migration flows, both voluntary and forced, and considers their interconnections. The book discusses migration as a global phenomenon. The definite advantage of the book is its global focus, and inclusion in the analysis the localities and local knowledge of migration outside of Europe. The empirical work discussed by the authors is insightful."Tiina Sotkasiira, University of Eastern Finland, Nordic Journal of Migration