{"id":671,"date":"2014-04-14T09:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=671"},"modified":"2014-04-14T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:47:23","slug":"671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNICATING MIGRATION SEMINAR SERIES: Hans Lucht &#8211; The station hustle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on ethnogr<a href=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2013\/12\/prt_www40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"prt_www40\" src=\"http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/files\/2013\/12\/prt_www40.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>aphic fieldwork in Niger, this Hans Lucht discusses how stranded migrants have become facilitators of the very journey they have failed to make themselves. These connection men, or &#8216;pushers&#8217; as they say themselves, are now key actors in high-risk migration across the Sahara Desert via Libya to Europe. They have somehow turned all their misfortunes into a form of capital, while awaiting a new chance to go to Europe.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hans Lucht<\/strong> is a senior researcher and journalist at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. His book on undocumented migration from West Africa to Europe (&#8220;Darkness before Daybreak &#8211; African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today&#8221;) won the 2012 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>Seminar is held in cooperation between the Institute of Social anthropology and IMER Bergen.<\/p>\n<p>For event detils: http:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/ai1ec_event\/hans-lucht-on-irregular-migration-in-italy\/?instance_id=288<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Niger, this Hans Lucht discusses how stranded migrants have become facilitators of the very journey they have failed to make themselves. These connection men, or &#8216;pushers&#8217; as they say themselves, are now key actors in high-risk migration across the Sahara Desert via Libya to Europe. They have somehow turned all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47513,47505,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology-2","category-communicating-migration-seminar-series-2014","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imer.w.uib.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}