Youth on the Move: Views from Below on Ethiopian International Migration

by Asnake Kefale (Editor), Fana Gebresenbet (Editor)

Overview

At a time when policies are increasingly against it, international migration has become the subject of great public and academic attention. This book departs from the dominant approach of studying international migration at macro level, and from the perspective of destination countries. The contributors here seek to do more than 'scratch the surface' of the migration process, by foregrounding the voices and views of Ethiopian youth-potential migrants and returnees-and of their sending communities. The volume focuses on the perspective and agency of these young people, both potential migrants and returnees, to better understand migration decision-making, experiences and outcomes. It brings together rarely documented cases of young men and women from several communities across Ethiopia, migrating to the Gulf and South Africa. Explaining the agency of local actors-prospective migrants, brokers and sending families-Youth on the Move illuminates the pervasive, persistent failure of state attempts to regulate migration. Moreover, it examines the financing of migration and the sharing of remittances, within a culturally situated moral economy. While accounts centered on economics and political violence are important, the contributors demonstrate compellingly that these factors alone cannot provide a full understanding of migration's complexity, nor of its social realities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197644249
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Asnake Kefale, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University, has published extensively on federalism, comparative politics, conflict and migration. Fana Gebresenbet, Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University's Institute for Peace and Security Studies, has published on migration, state-society relations and the politics of development.

Table of Contents

Map List of Figures and Tables About the Editors and Contributors Multiple Transitions and Irregular Migration in Ethiopia: Agency and Assemblage from Below Asnake Kefale and Fana Gebresenbet Part I: Governing Irregular Migration from Ethiopia: Policy Making and (Un)Desired Outcome Chapter 1: Interrogating the Inter-Linkage between Ethiopian Migration Policies and Irregular Migration Alemu Asfaw Nigusie Chapter 2: 'Say What the Government Wants and Do What is Good for Your Family': Facilitation of Irregular Migration in Ethiopia Fekadu Adugna, Priya Deshingkar and Tekalign Ayalew Part II: Beyond Push and Pull: Drivers of International Irregular Migration Chapter 3: The Drivers of Youth Migration in Addis Ababa Firehiwot Sintayehu Chapter 4: Hopelessness and Future Making through Irregular Migration in Tigray, Ethiopia Fana Gebresenbet Chapter 5: Migration Aspirations and 'Glocal Ideas of the Good Life' in two Rural Communities in Southern and North-Eastern Ethiopia - A Comparative Perspctive Catherine Dom Part III: Micro-Views on Migration Chapter 6: Rituals of Migration: Socially Entrenched Practices among Female Migrants from Amhara National Regional State Kiya Gezahegn Chapter 7: Irregular Migration among a Kambata Community in Ethiopia: Views from Below and their Implciations Mulugeta Gashaw Chapter 8: Gender Relations in a Transnational Space: Ethiopian Irregular Migrants in South Africa Yordanos S. Estifanos Part IV: Impacts of Migration Chapter 9: Remittances and Household Socio-Economic Wellbeing: The Case of Ethiopian Labour Migrants in the Gulf Countries and South Africa Asnake Kefale and Zerihun Mohammed Chapter 10: Heterogeneity in Outcomes of Migration: The Case of Irregular Migration to Saudi Arabia in Harresaw, Eastern Tigray Kiros Birhanu Chapter 11: The Moral Economy of Irregular Migration and Remittance Distribution in South Wollo Teferi Abate Adam Conclusion Fana Gebresenbet and Asnake Kefale Notes Bibliography Index??

Editorial Reviews

"A tour de force from some of the most important scholars working in and on the Horn of Africa today. Clearly written and drawing from a wide range of original empirical data, this is a key contribution to the literatures of migration, displacement, youth and development."— Laura Hammond, Professor of Development Studies, SOAS University of London, and author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia

"Youth on the Move greatly advances the frontiers of scholarship on migration studies. Going beyond the dominant discourse of push-pull factors, it adopts a nuanced migratory agency lens. Focussing on Ethiopian migration to the Gulf and South Africa, this volume fills an important knowledge gap on south-south migration."— Dereje Feyissa, Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University, and Co-Investigator for the Ethiopia-South Africa Migration Corridor, MIDEQ Research Hub

"This compelling book offers a rare window into the social realities behind irregular migration, showing in vivid case studies how migrants, families, and brokers assemble and reassemble the migratory process from below in ways that policymakers ignore at their peril." — Ruben Andersson, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, and author of Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe

"Youth on the Move is an extremely timely intervention into scholarly discussions of youth and migration. The volume draws together nuanced case studies from Ethiopia to demonstrate young people's agency in using social networks to facilitate international migration."— Daniel Mains, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, The University of Oklahoma, and author of Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia

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