Victims of their Fantasies or Heroes for a Day? Media Representations, Local History and Daily Narratives on Boat Migrations from Senegal

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Population dynamics
  • Personal resources and migration experience
  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Migrant aspirations and attitudes

• Migration forms

  • Unaccompanied minors
  • Irregular migration
  • Return migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Means of travel and transportation
  • Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Media representations of migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Knowledge producers and providers

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration
  • Policies on mobility

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • History

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Ethnography and grounded theory
  • Observation (participant and non-participant)
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Urban

• UN Countries

  • Senegal