Darkness before Daybreak

Zusatztext "A compelling text! containing both pwerful narrative and thoughtful theoretical analyses." Informationen zum Autor Hans Lucht is a Danish journalist, writer, and anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen. Klappentext "Lucht's engaging prose style and keen ethnographic eye provide for a captivating narrative on a form of population movement often in the news but rarely if ever really understood." --Jeffrey E. Cole, author with Sally Booth of Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily. "Few ethnographers manage to integrate in-depth multi-sited fieldwork, enthralling narrative and innovative theory as well as Hans Lucht does in this study of existential reciprocity among Ghanaian fishermen forced by dwindling catches to embark on hazardous migrations to Europe in search of the wherewithall of life. In Lucht's capable hands, these stories become an allegory of our times." --Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want. "An original, comprehensive, and skilled study, Darkness before Daybreak provides the reader with a real sense of the quality and meaning of existence in Ghana and in Naples, while providing enough historical and political/economic context to permit a nuanced critical analysis of globalization theory." --Peter Schneider, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, and author with Jane Schneider of Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. Illuminating the nature of high-risk migration around the world, this title reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Losses and Gains in Naples 1. Clandestino 2. Migrant Work Situations 3. Suffering in a Globalized World Part II. The Journey to Europe 4. The Mediterranean Passage 5. The Maghreb Connection: Libya and a Desert to Cross Part III. In the Village of the Lost Captains 6. The Guan of Senya Beraku 7. The Body Stays! but the Soul Returns Conclusion Epilogue: Living on the Moon References ...

"A compelling text, containing both pwerful narrative and thoughtful theoretical analyses."

Autorentext

Hans Lucht is a Danish journalist, writer, and anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen.

Klappentext

"Lucht's engaging prose style and keen ethnographic eye provide for a captivating narrative on a form of population movement often in the news but rarely if ever really understood." --Jeffrey E. Cole, author with Sally Booth of Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily.

"Few ethnographers manage to integrate in-depth multi-sited fieldwork, enthralling narrative and innovative theory as well as Hans Lucht does in this study of existential reciprocity among Ghanaian fishermen forced by dwindling catches to embark on hazardous migrations to Europe in search of the wherewithall of life. In Lucht's capable hands, these stories become an allegory of our times." --Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want.

"An original, comprehensive, and skilled study, Darkness before Daybreak provides the reader with a real sense of the quality and meaning of existence in Ghana and in Naples, while providing enough historical and political/economic context to permit a nuanced critical analysis of globalization theory." --Peter Schneider, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, and author with Jane Schneider of Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo.

Zusammenfassung
Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. Illuminating the nature of high-risk migration around the world, this title reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants.

Inhalt
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Losses and Gains in Naples

1. Clandestino
2. Migrant Work Situations
3. Suffering in a Globalized World

Part II. The Journey to Europe

4. The Mediterranean Passage
5. The Maghreb Connection: Libya and a Desert to Cross

Part III. In the Village of the Lost Captains

6. The Guan of Senya Beraku
7. The Body Stays, but the Soul Returns

Conclusion
Epilogue: Living on the Moon
References