Worlds in Motion. We are All Africans Here : : Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe / / Kristín Loftsdóttir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Loftsdóttir, Kristín,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds in Motion ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Racialized Mobilities --; PART I Making Precarious Migrants --; CHAPTER 1 Living in Divided Europe: The Theme Park and the Street --; CHAPTER 2 “Enough of Refugees” Depictions of Precarious Migrants in Europe --; CHAPTER 3 Into the Heart of Europe: Migrants in Brussels and Beyond --; CHAPTER 4 Global Citizens and the Backstage --; CHAPTER 5 Multicultural Europe: Invasions against European Values? --; PART II Entangled Histories --; CHAPTER 6 This Is All in the Past Now: Niger and a Global World --; CHAPTER 7 Nostalgic Colonialism: Different Kinds of Otherness --; CHAPTER 8 Spaces of Innocence Belgium’s Colonial History and Beyond --; PART III Europe’s Past and Future --; CHAPTER 9 The Heart of Darkness: EUrope as a Concept --; CONCLUSION Welcome to the Future: Dismaland and Anxieties in Europe --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800733282; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800733282
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kristín Loftsdóttir.

Europe is often described as "flooded" by migrants or by Muslim "others," with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an increasingly cosmopolitan world. This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.