Harraga

When Leaving Becomes the Horizon - Malek Bennabi, Irregular Migration and the Crisis of the Future in the Maghreb and Africa

von Mohamed Mehenoun

292 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Why would a young person risk the Mediterranean or Atlantic when the dangers are already known? HARRAGA argues that the answer cannot be reduced to poverty, unemployment or a romantic image of Europe. It lies in the gap between aspirations and credible pathways to adulthood, mobility and social recognition.

Bringing Malek Bennabi into dialogue with contemporary migration research, Mohamed Mehenoun examines the Maghreb alongside selected West African routes. Algeria and the Balearic Islands, Morocco and Ceuta, Tunisia and Lampedusa, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and the Canary Islands become case studies in a wider question: what happens when leaving begins to look more productive than waiting?

The book also follows migrants after arrival, through informal work, overcrowded housing, legal uncertainty, deskilling, debt, family pressure and the difficult decision of whether to return. It closes with a concrete policy programme covering employment, legal mobility, return, diaspora engagement, administrative reform and local development.

Neither a polemic nor an official narrative, HARRAGA is a research-based essay about migration, dignity and the credibility of the future.

• ISBN: 9798194327461
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp