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Postcoloniality and Forced Migration
Mobility, Control, Agency
Edited by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui and Eva Magdalena Stambøl
ISBN
978-1529218190Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529218206Dimensions
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Bristol University PressThis powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts.
Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics in the present day. These case studies across Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field.
As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.
"This wide-ranging series of interdisciplinary analyses acutely confront the broken politics and violent geographies of the colonial constitution of modern migration." Iain Chambers, Università degli Studi di Napoli
“This vital book engages admirably with the coloniality of power from the resettlement of slave trade refugees to the contemporary commodification, surveillance and externalisation of forced migrants. It is an essential addition to the field.” Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.
Sharla M. Fett is Professor of History at Occidental College.
Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.
Nina Sahraoui is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA), CNRS.
Eva Magdalena Stambøl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Berlin.
Introduction - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, Eva Magdalena Stambøl
Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of `Liberated Africans´ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808-1860 - Laura Rosanne Adderley and Sharla M. Fett
Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918 - Ella Fratantuono
Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance. Insights from Mayotte, Ceuta & Melilla and Tanzania - Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui and Elsa Tyszler
Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: The Case of French Civipol in West Africa - Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Leonie Jegen
Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection - Lina Ewert
Of the Mobile and the Immobilised: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission - Lucy Mayblin
The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony. Postcoloniality and geopolitics of energy and migration control in Libya - Mathias Tjønn and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of otherness in the Evros/Edirne borderlands - Peter Teunissen and Penny Koutrolikou
The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India - Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil
Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity - Phillip Cole
Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia - Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Jerónimo Botero Marino
The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement - Felicity Atieno Okoth
Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambøl