TY - BOOK ID - 77848642 TI - The Global Horizon : Expectations of Migration in Africa and the Middle East AU - Graw, Knut AU - Schielke, Joska Samuli PY - 2021 SN - 9461661258 9789461661258 9789058679062 9058679063 9461663994 9789461663993 PB - Leuven Leuven University Press DB - UniCat KW - Migration, Internal KW - Internal migration KW - Mobility KW - Population geography KW - Internal migrants KW - Middle East KW - Africa KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Asia, South West KW - Asia, Southwest KW - Asia, West KW - Asia, Western KW - East (Middle East) KW - Eastern Mediterranean KW - Fertile Crescent KW - Levant KW - Mediterranean Region, Eastern KW - Mideast KW - Near East KW - Northern Tier (Middle East) KW - South West Asia KW - Southwest Asia KW - West Asia KW - Western Asia KW - Orient KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - migration; imaginations; expectations; motivations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77848642 AB - Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, act ER -