African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av P. Khalil Saucier, Tryon P. Woods, P. Khalil (Bucknell University) Saucier, P Khalil Saucier, Tryon P Woods

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African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism presents a probing examination of the contemporary migrant “crisis” in the Mediterranean Basin. By centering our analysis on how racial slavery has shaped European democratic culture, its abolitionist traditions, and the global structures of capital accumulation, P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods reveal and confront how contemporary discourse on the migrant “crisis” displaces Black sovereign mobility. Their inquiry into the modern world’s culture of politics investigates “freedom of movement” discourse’s ostensible confrontation with border policing, the memorializing of Black migrant deaths by artists and advocates, and the visual imagery of a cosmopolitan and multicultural Europe as conceived by filmmakers in response to the migrant “crisis” as variants of a slaveholding culture instantiated in the early Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds. This analysis allows the authors to formulate a new critical framework for analysis of both the problems of contemporary migration and borders and the leading prescriptions on offer from analysts, advocates, and policy makers in order to develop alternate ways of conceptualizing global society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-06-10
Mått160 x 237 x 28 mm
Vikt653 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChallenging Migration Studies
Antal sidor306
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666953848

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Confronting the Police Power of HumanitarianismChapter 1: Still Trafficking in Blackness: The Antiblack Basis of Global CapitalismChapter 2: Europe’s Ode to Itself: The Charter of Lampedusa and the Problem of Black MobilityChapter 3: The Fantasy of Mourning: Surplus Enjoyment in the BasinChapter 4: “Does Anybody Need a Digger?”: Visualizing AbolitionCoda: Riding with Death/Failure of InventionIndexBibliographyAbout the Authors

The decadence of contemporary critical thought is clear in the use of the dead drowning abject black body as material for imaginaries of an antiracist, humanitarian and abolitionist Europe. Saucier and Woods analyze how radical thought is so often sucked into a liberal antiracism that reinforces colonial hierarchies rather than questions them. Written with passion and acuity, this important book opens up a new avenue for thought in migration and border studies and beyond. Required reading.