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'Making It' Through Migration: Success (Im)Mobility And 'Development' In The Gambia, Martin J. Aucoin
'Making It' Through Migration: Success (Im)Mobility And 'Development' In The Gambia, Martin J. Aucoin
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Contemporary scholarly and journalistic literature consistently represents migration from and through The Gambia using the lens of “crisis”. While these representations normally focus on Gambian migration to European states – a movement that is highly politicized – this thesis presents a case study of Gambian migration to a less-politicized destination, North America, in order to explore the relationship between lived experiences and representations of migration absent the discourse of crisis that pervades other scholarly and journalistic works. Drawing on the mobilities paradigm, feminist geographies of migration, critical race theory, transnationalism, and literatures on bordering, humanitarianism and development, I examine, through …