Doing bizness: Migrant smuggling and everyday life in the Maghreb
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Doing bizness : Migrant smuggling and everyday life in the Maghreb. / Richter, Line.
I: Focaal, Bind 2019, Nr. 85, 2019, s. 26-36.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Doing bizness
T2 - Migrant smuggling and everyday life in the Maghreb
AU - Richter, Line
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Drawing on extensive fieldwork among Malian migrants and connection men, this article investigates the sociality of facilitating migrant journeys and illegal border crossings in the Maghreb. Dominant discourses portray smugglers as participating in highly organized networks of unscrupulous people taking advantage of innocent migrants. I counter such narratives by zooming in on West African migrants involved in the facilitation of illegal border crossings. This bizness consists of ensembles of temporary practices and relations embedded in everyday life with linkages to historical and regional practices of brokering and hosting. This perspective invites us to move conceptually from focusing on different (stereo) types of smugglers to considering smuggling practices; to make sense of the phenomenon, we need to pay less attention to fixed social positions and more to the transient social poses adopted by those involved.
AB - Drawing on extensive fieldwork among Malian migrants and connection men, this article investigates the sociality of facilitating migrant journeys and illegal border crossings in the Maghreb. Dominant discourses portray smugglers as participating in highly organized networks of unscrupulous people taking advantage of innocent migrants. I counter such narratives by zooming in on West African migrants involved in the facilitation of illegal border crossings. This bizness consists of ensembles of temporary practices and relations embedded in everyday life with linkages to historical and regional practices of brokering and hosting. This perspective invites us to move conceptually from focusing on different (stereo) types of smugglers to considering smuggling practices; to make sense of the phenomenon, we need to pay less attention to fixed social positions and more to the transient social poses adopted by those involved.
KW - Everyday life
KW - Maghreb
KW - Migrant smuggling
KW - Transnational organized crime
KW - West Africa
U2 - 10.3167/fcl.2019.850103
DO - 10.3167/fcl.2019.850103
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85076464398
VL - 2019
SP - 26
EP - 36
JO - Focaal
JF - Focaal
SN - 0920-1297
IS - 85
ER -
ID: 241089973