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Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, Agency (Global Migration and Social Change) by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (editor), Sharla M. Fett (editor), Lucy Mayblin (editor), Nina Sahraoui (editor), Eva Magdalena Stambøl (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, Agency (Global Migration and Social Change) about?
World history is peppered with population displacements, forced migrations, and expulsions, and European colonialism was implicated in the forced movement of countless people from the 15th century onwards. The founding of many instruments of international law dealing with forced migration, including the current international refugee regime, were drafted by imperial powers and informed by colonial logics, including ideas of racial hierarchy and civilizational difference. While colonialism may seem, to some, as something of the past, this book argues that colonial logics and assumptions about the world and the various peoples who inhabit it, continues to shape the present in profound ways. This book contributes to an emergent research agenda on postcoloniality and forced migration by bringing forth a thoroughly interdisciplinary collection of chapters dealing with postcolonial contexts from around the world. It explores various histories and geographies of colonial-era forced migration, and the ways in which their legacies continue to shape displacements and our responses to them today. It unsettles presentist and Eurocentric epistemologies, and offers novel insights into the colonia
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Lemberg-Pedersen (editor), Sharla M. Fett (editor), Lucy Mayblin (editor), Nina Sahraoui (editor), Eva Magdalena Stambøl (editor)
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781529218213
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, History
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