The threshold test: African migrants between mobility and immobilization

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s Philippe Poutignat, Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/1
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 7-18 File size 55 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2016-001001
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This article discusses African migrations known as irregular or clandestine. The main characteristic of these migrations is that they represent a mobility hindered by the closure of Europe’s borders and the continuous hardening of the policies meant to repulse the people crossing. By placing the control of the border at the heart of the question of migrations, the institutions in charge of migratory control have influenced the meaning that the people migrating have of mobility. It is now apprehended as the challenge of the threshold. We are interested in particular by the social experience of these migrants whose life unfolds under the constraint of immobility.

Keywords: African migrations; mobility hindered; threshold test; the constraint of immobility

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Philippe Poutignat, Jocelyne Streiff-Fénart, La prova della soglia: migranti africani tra mobilità e immobilizzazione in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 1/2016, pp 7-18, DOI: 10.3280/MM2016-001001