We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe

Kristín Loftsdóttir (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-714-4 (ISBN)

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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).

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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	12.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Worlds in Motion
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-714-1 / 1805397141
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-714-4 / 9781805397144
Zustand	Neuware