BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news318@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230905T105256 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231129T161500 SUMMARY:Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration\, Identity Documen ts and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe DESCRIPTION:Faced with exclusion by the increasingly hostile immigration po licies in Europe\, West African migrants have responded by drawing on kins hip and generating new kinds of sociality. Through the exchange of identit y documents between “siblings\,” assistance in obtaining such document ation through kinship networks\, and marriages that provide access to citi zenship\, new assemblages of kinship are continually made and remade to na vigate complex migration routes and the shifting demands of European state s. West African migrants with precarious legal status mobilize and produce kinship to obtain identity documents\, such as visas\, work permits\, res idence permits\, and passports\, which enable them to travel\, work in for mal jobs\, and stay legally in Europe. In settings of unequal access to ci tizenship\, accelerated change and uncertainty\, migrants work with kinshi p in search of security\, stability\, and predictability. These new kinshi p relations\, however\, often prove unreliable\, taking on new\, unexpecte d dynamics in the face of codependency\; they become more difficult to con trol than those who enter into such relations can imagine. X-ALT-DESC:

Faced with exclusion by the increasingly hostile immigration policies in Europe\, West African migrants have responded by drawing on ki nship and generating new kinds of sociality. Through the exchange of ident ity documents between “siblings\,” assistance in obtaining such docume ntation through kinship networks\, and marriages that provide access to ci tizenship\, new assemblages of kinship are continually made and remade to navigate complex migration routes and the shifting demands of European sta tes. West African migrants with precarious legal status mobilize and produ ce kinship to obtain identity documents\, such as visas\, work permits\, r esidence permits\, and passports\, which enable them to travel\, work in f ormal jobs\, and stay legally in Europe. In settings of unequal access to citizenship\, accelerated change and uncertainty\, migrants work with kins hip in search of security\, stability\, and predictability. These new kins hip relations\, however\, often prove unreliable\, taking on new\, unexpec ted dynamics in the face of codependency\; they become more difficult to c ontrol than those who enter into such relations can imagine.

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