This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of 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 globalizing societies.

NADIA KIWAN Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Aberdeen, UK and author ofIdentities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France.Her research interests include migration, identity, new social movements, and new forms of migrant cultural production and citizenship.ULRIKE MEINHOF Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. She has directed ESRC, AHRC and EU-funded research into EU border identities, cultural policy in metropolitan cities, networks and neighbourhoods in provincial regions in Europe, and transnational networks of musicians from Africa

Acknowledgements Introduction Networks and Transnational Movements a Theoretical and Methodological Challenge to Migration Research Translocal Networking in Madagascar and Morocco Metropolitan Hubs in the South Capital Cities as Global Hubs Beyond the Capitals: Translocality/transnationality in Europe and the South Mutual Supports: North South Mutual supports: South North