'It takes courage to return': West African migrants making sense of (In)voluntary return from Morocco amid adventure, failure and destiny.
This paper examines how young West African migrant men decide to enrol in the IOM's voluntary return programme in Morocco and make sense of their return while they wait for it to happen. Through an ethnographic exploration of migrants' affective and moral economy of mobility, it shows that choosing...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 1040 - 1058 |
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Feb2025
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