Introduction: Networks and Transnational Movements: A Theoretical and Methodological Challenge to Migration Research

Abstract

This is a book about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, seen through the alternative prism of artists from North Africa (mainly Morocco and Algeria) and Madagascar, and of their complex networks within and across African, European and wider global spaces: a decidedly ‘bottom-up’ view, which privileges the voices of people ‘on the move’. Our study presents and analyses the personal narratives and practices of such musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural and civil society milieus of global or globalizing societies.