The idea of alleviating migration pressure by means of humanitarian aid and development
cooperation is long-standing. It has received renewed attention since the surge in migration …

This paper develops the concept of 'action space'as the range of possible destinations a
migrant can realistically move to at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set …

Paris's Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the
past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrants—self …

Wars unsettle our commonsense understandings of movement and mobility. Simultaneously
entropic and inertial, they conjure up images of rampant disorder and chaos as well as …

Abstract Bjarnesen, J. 2013. Diaspora at Home? Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-
Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in …

Within an emerging body of work on queer mobilities, a marked interest in sexuality and
migration/asylum has left ample room to consider the complex experience of everyday …

Wars unsettle our commonsense understandings of movement and mobility. Simultaneously
entropic and inertial, they conjure up images of rampant disorder and chaos as well as …

This paper develops the concept of" action space" as the range of possible destinations to
which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this …

This collection of short essays is the result of a collaborative effort to address methodological
questions that arose in two research groups at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Basel …

One of the most striking consequences of the recent armed conflict in Côte d'Ivoire is the
forced displacement of Burkinabé labor migrants and their families from Côte d'Ivoire to …