Mobile Africa
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Langaa RPCIG,
2019.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Book Series
- Preface by Chief Fortune Charumbira
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- A Word on the Review Procedure
- Acronyms
- Preamble
- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
- Chapter 1
- Black Holes in the Global Digital Landscape: The Fuelling of Human Trafficking on the African Continent
- Introduction
- Methodology
- The knowledge society
- Architecture of the information network
- The geographic misrepresentation of Africa and its effect on latency
- Black holes in the global digital landscape
- Stuck with this legacy
- Digitalisation of human trafficking for ransom
- Some empirical evidence
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2
- Network Gatekeepers in Human Trafficking: Profiting from the Misery of Eritreans in the Digital Era
- Introduction
- Network gatekeepers
- The uneven digitally-connected world
- Methodology
- The relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers
- Alternative information sources
- Ability to produce and distribute information
- Relationship between the gated and the gatekeepers
- Political power
- The dependence of Eritrean refugees on human traffickers
- Alternatives to migration to Europe
- Alternative migration routes or options
- Autonomy to choose human smugglers and traffickers
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3
- Bound Together in the Digital Era: Poverty, Migration and Human Trafficking
- Introduction
- The relationship between human trafficking and mixed migration
- Poverty, the main driver of mixed migration
- The cycle of poverty and human trafficking
- Deliberate poverty
- Trafficking in a digital age
- Slavery and trafficking for ransom: A profitable industry
- An African perspective on combatting human trafficking through the eradication of poverty
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4
- Tortured on Camera: The Use of ICTs in Trafficking for Ransom
- Introduction
- Research questions
- Research method
- Documentaries
- Sound of Torture
- Under the Skin
- It Will Be Chaos
- Time periods
- Theoretical framework
- Results
- Period 1: 2009-2014
- Period 2: 2014-2015
- Period 3: 2016-ongoing
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II. Traumatising Trajectories
- Chapter 5
- 'Sons of Isaias': Slavery and Indefinite National Service in Eritrea
- Introduction
- Escaping slavery
- Methodology
- National Service in Eritrea
- Warsay Yikaalo
- Control of labour and the economy
- Control of information
- Disruption of social relationships
- Choosing to flee
- Institutionalised forced labour
- No change with peace: The exodus continues
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6
- Journeys of Youth in Digital Africa: Pulled by Connectivity
- Introduction
- Black holes
- Nudging
- Methodology
- Eritrea: Understanding children and youth
- Technology and connectivity in Eritrea
- Upon arrival in Ethiopia: Hitsats camp