Hopes in Transition offers an incisive ethnographic exploration of sub-Saharan African migrants navigating life in contemporary Istanbul. Grounded in rich, qualitative research, this book interrogates the political and economic conditions that compel transnational mobility, while centering the voices and lived experiences of those who have embarked on migration as an act of survival and self-determination.
Challenging reductionist framings of migration as crisis or threat, the author theori ...