Category: Speaking Back to Theory
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Europe’s ‘ineffective’ migration policies work well for white supremacy
This blog post describes how white supremacy works through European approaches to ‘manage’ migration from Africa. Iriann Freemantle argues that while it sometimes takes militant forms, the mainstream version of white supremacy is much more pervasive. Although still violent, it is rhetorically softer and avoids explicit racial bias. Yet, its basic premise remains: that whiteness…
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Too many nerds in one room: Theories, theorization, and deconstructing categories
This post reflects on theory-building and inequality in migration research related to African contexts, and the power of categorisations about displacement.
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Historical Migrations in Africa: From Flexible Configurations to Transgressive Mobilities
Historical mobilities in Africa challenge the conceptualisation of mobility and immobility as binaries. In this post, Rose Jaji elaborates on how contemporary migration governance on the continent can be traced back to the transplantation of Western notions of statehood and nationhood to Africa through colonialism, and how these ideas transformed migration and non-migration from continuums…
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“Inequality isn’t just ‘out there’”: Interrogating disparities in research on mobilities and inequality in Africa
In this post, Hassan Ould Moctar and Heike Drotbohm reflect on historical and enduring structural inequalities that affect the conduct and framing of migration scholarship in different ways. They draw on the discussion during a Point Sud workshop co-organised by AMMODI in Ghana in March 2023.