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We are All Africans Here - Kristín Loftsdóttir

We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-327-5 (ISBN)
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This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. Their voices show some of the contradictions in current discourses.
Europe is often described as "flooded" by migrants or by Muslim "others," with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an increasingly cosmopolitan world. This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. Her publications include Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland (Routledge, 2019).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction



Part I: Making Precarious Migrants



Chapter 1. Living in Divided Europe: The Theme Park and the Street

Chapter 2. “Enough of Refugees”: Depictions of Precarious Migrants in Europe

Chapter 3. Into the Heart of Europe: Migrants in Brussels and Beyond

Chapter 4. Global Citizens and the Backstage

Chapter 5. Multicultural Europe: Invasions against European Values?



Part II: Entangled Histories



Chapter 6. This is All in the Past Now: Niger and a Global World

Chapter 7. Nostalgic Colonialism: Different Kinds of Otherness

Chapter 8. Spaces of Innocence: Belgium’s Colonial History and Beyond



Part III: Europe’s Past and Future



Chapter 9. The Heart of Darkness: EUrope as a Concept



Conclusion: Welcome to the Future: Dismaland and Anxieties in Europe



References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Worlds in Motion
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-327-5 / 1800733275
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-327-5 / 9781800733275
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