Southern Routes (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Gerda Heck | knygos.lt

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Southern Routes draws on more than a decade of multi-sited ethnographic research of the Congolese diaspora, following migrants through various southern metropolises, including Accra, Cairo, Istanbul, Guangzhou and Rio de Janeiro. Centering migrants' everyday experiences and narratives, the book traces the diverse journeys through which they navigate transnational, diasporic, and religious networks in pursuit of better lives. It highlights migrants' agency, aspirations, risks and strategies as they contend with tightly controlled global migration regimes, foregrounding individual life trajectories often absent from the scholarly literature.

In a notable departure from most migration studies, the book emphasizes Congolese migration within global South cities, revealing interconnections shaped by history, family, kinship, religion, trade, and education, while also considering cases of onward travel to Europe and North America. In doing so, it examines how migrants confront securitized visa and border systems. Southern Routes offers original, grounded insights into contemporary African migration movements and the dynamics of transnational urban life.

Gerda Heck is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology and at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo.

By foregrounding South-South trajectories and the lived experiences of Congolese migrants, this book challenges Eurocentric perspectives and advances a decolonial approach to migration research. A valuable resource for scholars and students across different fields, including migration studies, anthropology and international politics. - Johara Berriane, University of the Bundeswehr Munich