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Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, Agency
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Table of contents
Notes on Authors
Acknowledgments
Series Preface
1 Introduction
Multiple disciplines, multiple omissions
Postcolonial controversies
Postcoloniality and recontextualizing the present
Researching the legacies of colonialism
The contributions in this volume
References
2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas
Introduction
Arming slave trade refugees in Caribbean and US/Liberian contexts
‘Forced’ military labour and African recaptives in the Caribbean
US externalization of slave trade recaptives to Liberia
African recaptives resist military labour and colonial agendas
Recaptive mutiny in Trinidad: resettlement discontent and anti-colonial rebellion
Liberian colonialism, militia recruitment and resettlement discontent
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918
Introduction
Crisis and opportunity
Social categories in a precarious state
Useful refugees after Empire
References
4 Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance
Introduction
Defending what remains of the Spanish Empire: about migration control at Ceuta and Melilla borders
Outside within, the colonial legacy of an ‘exceptional’ governance of mobilities at the postcolonial periphery of Mayotte
Tanzania: between expulsion and exploitation of migrants and refugees from colonialism to the present
Conclusion
Note
References
5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing
Introduction
Corporate interests in French colonization
Policing, registration and surveillance in the French Empire
Pré carré, the blurring of public-private and internal security
Introducing Civipol and its blurred public-private nature
Civipol’s role in European border externalization to Africa
Civil registries, biometrization and mobility control
Conclusion
Note
References
6 Displaced, Profiled, Protected?
Introduction
Surveillance culture, techno-colonialism and the ambiguity of biometric technology
From encampment to urban settlement – changing humanitarian imaginaries of refugee protection
Syrians’ imaginaries of humanitarian surveillance in Jordan
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
7 Of the Mobile and the Immobilized
Introduction
Whose mobility is a problem?
Migrants as disease spreaders
Colonialism, mobility, disease, genocide
Mobility, immobility and COVID-19
Conclusion
References
8 The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony
Introduction
Reimagining Rome on the fourth shore: forced displacement and settler colonialism
ENI and strategic appeals to postcoloniality in postwar Libyan politics
Libya, EU’s gatekeeper: a Mediterranean migration regime on imperial-colonial undercurrents
Libya in a postcolonial mix: from an Italian ‘mare nostrum’ to a Turkish ‘blue homeland’?
Conclusion
References
9 Echoes of Imperialism
Introduction
The imperial borders of EUrope
Imperial formations at the Greek/Turkish border
Reconfigurations of the borders of EUrope
The (rather) permanent emergency of migration
(Re)instrumentalization of migration at the Evros/Edirne border in 2020
Reflections on the borders
Notes
References
10 The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India
Introduction
The historical practice of sanctuary and the state’s performativity of hospitality
The practice of sanctuary and the politics of belonging in postcolonial India
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Refugees and Political Theorists
Introduction
Part 1: Framing the refugee
Part 2: What is to be done (by political theorists)?
Conclusion
Notes
References
12 Singing Historical Reparations
Introduction
The peace agreement
The Mutilated Christ: the massacre
The setting of the spectacle of forgiveness in Bojayá?
Singing for reparations in this setting: the alabaoras
The Christ offered: the forgiveness
The gift of the FARC: the Black Christ of Bojayá
Conclusion
Notes
References
13 The Subaltern Can Speak
Introduction
Forced migration and postcoloniality: temporal and critical aftermaths
Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement as a site of border subversion
The subaltern can speak
Conclusion
References
14 Conclusion
Introduction
The enduring power of ideas of race and racial hierarchy in responses to forced migration
(Post)colonial states managing mobile populations in their own interests
Seeking to spatially organize populations along modern/colonial lines
The role of private companies and non-state actors, past and present
The role of technologies for surveillance, categorization and control, past and present
The fraught politics of sanctuary, hospitality and forgiveness
Postcoloniality and forced migration: a research agenda
References
Index
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