Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, Agency (Global Migration and Social Change)
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- Synopsis
- This powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 248 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529218206
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529218190
- Publisher:
- Bristol University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/23/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Bristol University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Martin Lemberg-Pedersen
- Edited by:
- Sharla M. Fett
- Edited by:
- Lucy Mayblin
- Edited by:
- Nina Sahraoui
- Edited by:
- Eva Magdalena Stambøl
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