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Postcolonial African Migration to the West

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327 Seiten
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Springer Nature Switzerlanderschienen am04.07.20242024
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. It is a flight from oneself, from perceived inadequacies. To migrate to the West is an expression of the desire for being, not through detachment from the 'fascinating' West but rather through adoration and imitation of its lifestyle, beauty ideals, and soft and hard power, and by living in the West. The model (the West) builds ubiquitous anti-migrant physical and virtual fences, which the imitator tries to overcome. The more the model re-strengthens these fences, the more the imitator tries to scale them. The anti-migrant fences are the meeting point of the model's perceived superiority, admirability, and desirability on the one hand, and on the other hand the imitator's inferiority complex and inner tension between the paradoxical desire for detachment from the model and its passionate imitation at the same time. This book argues that African migration to the West will continue even in the absence of poverty, conflicts, and climate change because it is also about the mimetic desire for being.

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KlappentextPostcolonial 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. It is a flight from oneself, from perceived inadequacies. To migrate to the West is an expression of the desire for being, not through detachment from the 'fascinating' West but rather through adoration and imitation of its lifestyle, beauty ideals, and soft and hard power, and by living in the West. The model (the West) builds ubiquitous anti-migrant physical and virtual fences, which the imitator tries to overcome. The more the model re-strengthens these fences, the more the imitator tries to scale them. The anti-migrant fences are the meeting point of the model's perceived superiority, admirability, and desirability on the one hand, and on the other hand the imitator's inferiority complex and inner tension between the paradoxical desire for detachment from the model and its passionate imitation at the same time. This book argues that African migration to the West will continue even in the absence of poverty, conflicts, and climate change because it is also about the mimetic desire for being.

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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783031585685
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format Hinweis1 - PDF Watermark
FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum04.07.2024
Auflage2024
ReihePolitics of Citizenship and Migration
Seiten327 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse6700 Kbytes
IllustrationenX, 327 p.
Artikel-Nr.16514366
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Genre9200

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.mehr

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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.