Tag: Migration
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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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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
Cover photo by “flowcomm”, accessed on Flickr by Hassan Ould Moctar & Heike Drotbohm At a recent Point Sud workshop that took place 15-18 March 2023 in Accra and Cape Coast, we, a group of thirty scholars from several African and European countries, gathered to exchange and reflect on migration research in and from Africa. Over…
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Introducing “Invisibility in African Displacements”
Series Introduction This post is a part of a series introducing the recent anthology Invisibility in African Displacements (Zed Books 2020). The book was edited by Simon Turner and AMMODI co-founder Jesper Bjarnesen, and offers new analytical ideas for understanding migrant in/visibilisation. In each post, the contributors present their chapter in a more accessible format,…
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Shifting the narrative on African migration
Negative public opinion in Europe is a major obstacle to holistic and sustainable policies relating to African migration. Based on his observations of migration debates in Sweden and Denmark, Jesper Bjarnesen argues for a shift in wording and perspective away from politicised opinions about immigration, or misplaced ideas of humanitarian responsibilities, towards a more constructive…
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Africa at the gates: Europe’s lose-lose migration management plan
Since the summer of 2015, the question of how to stem the flows from Africa and the Middle East is at the centre of increasingly existential debates about the very future of Europe. Loren B Landau and Iriann Freemantle contemplate the underlying logics and effects of EU migration management.