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Postcolonial African Migration to the West

A Mimetic Desire for Being

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvBelachew Gebrewold

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Postcolonial African migration to the West is not only a spatial movement in search of material and physical security but also an expression of the mimetic desire for being by imitating the West or “whitening” oneself against the background of the dehumanizing historical legacies of slavery, colonialism, and Western dominance.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-05
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitics of Citizenship and Migration
Antal sidor327
Upplaga2024
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031585678

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Belachew Gebrewold is a professor of International Relations and the Head of Department and Studies of Social Work and Social Policy at MCI, Innsbruck, Austria. His main research areas are African politics, conflicts and migration. His publications include various peer-reviewed articles, monographs and edited volumes such as Africa and Fortress Europe, 2007; Anatomy of Violence, 2009; Global Security Triangle, 2010; Understanding Migrant Decisions, 2016; Human Trafficking and Exploitation, 2017. He was also a member of the steering committee of the UN Global Compact for Regular, Safe and Orderly Migration preparatory process in 2017.

Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Challenges in Determining Migration Causes: Policies and Theories.- Chapter three: Theeconomic dimension of the postcolonial African migration to the West.- Chapter Four: The Political Dimension of the Postcolonial African Migration to the West.- Chapter five: The postcolonial African migration to the West as a Desire for Liberation.- Chapter Six: The Postcolonial African Migration to the West as a Desire for Recognition.- Chapter seven: The postcolonial African migration to the West as a desire for being.- Chapter eight: thepostcolonial Migration from Africa to the West as a Desire for Equality and Negation of Difference.- Chapter nine: Summary and Conclusion.

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