ISBN:
9781800733275
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 173 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Series Statement:
Worlds in motion volume 10
Series Statement:
Worlds in motion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kristín Loftsdóttir, 1968- We are all Africans here
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kristín Loftsdóttir, 1968 - We are all Africans here
DDC:
305.80094
Keywords:
West Africans Social conditions
;
Nigeriens Social conditions
;
Refugees Social conditions
;
Refugees Social conditions
;
Rascism
;
Niger Emigration and immigration
;
Europe Emigration and immigration
;
Africa, West Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Living in Divided Europe: The Theme Park and the Street -- "Enough of Refugees": Depictions of Precarious Migrants in Europe -- Into the Heart of Europe: Migrants in Brussels and Beyond -- Global Citizens and the Backstage -- Multicultural Europe: Invasions against European Values? -- This is All in the Past Now: Niger and a Global World -- Nostalgic Colonialism: Different Kinds of Otherness -- Spaces of Innocence: Belgium's Colonial History and Beyond -- The Heart of Darkness: EUrope as a Concept -- Welcome to the Future: Dismaland and Anxieties in Europe.
Abstract:
"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. Their voices show some of the contradictions in current discourses. 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 secure the innocence of Europe"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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