Clandestine Afroeuropean Itineraries
摘要
This chapter concentrates on the kinetic aspects of clandestine migration in three contexts. First, the chapter discusses clandestine migrants’ transnational mobilities from the African continent and toward Europe. These narratives are often given settings that are on the road, with North Africa as one that is important. Second, the chapter explores clandestine migrants’ urban mobilities once they have reached their alleged destination in Europe. The third section analyzes deportation aeromobilities. The material includes Alain Mabanckou’s Bleu-blanc-rouge (1998), Aminata Sow Fall’s Douceurs du bercail (1998), Nathalie Etoke’s Un Amour sans papiers (1999), Edem Awumey’s Les Pieds sales (2009), Wilfried N’Sondé’s Le Silence des esprits (2010), Aminata Pagni’s Impossible de rester (2019), Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe’s Les Lumières d’Oujda (2020), Khalil Diallo’s Odyssée des oubliés (2021), and Khalid Lyamlahy’s Évocation d’un mémorial à Venise (2023). In many of the texts, mobility practices drive the plot and generate encounters on the road. Some texts translate the unpredictability of clandestine mobilities onto the level of syntax or produce a poetics of mobility that highlights the relationality of different mobilities, including in a transtemporal sense. Motifs of non-arrival and walking also capture the precarious qualities of clandestine migratory mobilities.