'I wish I had listened and not come to South Africa': fantasies, expectations and trajectories of migration among Ethiopian unaccompanied child migrants into South Africa.
Migration studies often focus on the socio-political and economic factors that drive people to migrate, overlooking the fantasies and processes involved in actualising the journey. This paper examines unaccompanied Ethiopian child migrants in South Africa, using the concept of fantasy to understand...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 1688 - 1705 |
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Apr2025
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