Paolo Boccagni: Undoing Nothing, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Within the magnitude of academic work on asylum seekers and African migrants in Europe, Undoing Nothing is an exceptional book. Not only is it beautifully written and meticulously researched, but it provides us with an analytical approach that manages to capture the ambivalent being and presence that characterize the circumstances of many migrants within the EU. The book thus moves us away from dramatic and sensational descriptions of refugee predicaments and toward a detailed and perceptive analysis of the ways people navigate and manage their lives in the interstices between being stuck and in motion, surviving and aspiring. An essential read for anyone working on everyday spaces of marginality."--Henrik Vigh, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

"Paolo Boccagni's ethnography of the absurd confronts the existential question of what it means to live in limbo while waiting for asylum. This is a serious work from a leading thinker on how migration shapes experiences of being 'home.'"--David FitzGerald, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

"A must-read book in the age of legal and existential liminality for asylum seekers. Boccagni shows how young racialized West African men live their everyday lives in the context of an asylum-seeker center that is framed as 'apparent nothingness.' The challenge is, How to undo this nothingness?"--Ilse van Liempt, Associate Professor of Human Geography, Utrecht University