What is it about?
This keyword considers the new mobilities and diaspora perspectives together. It reviews key trends of both literatures, exploring analytical tensions and resonance. It suggests that regimes of mobilities and migratory trajectories contributes to analysis of African diaspora formations and practices, with regard to how mobility and immobility is and has been governed, today and historically. Likewise, it suggests that temporality and belonging can enrich mobility studies.
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Why is it important?
Both the mobilities and diaspora literatures are important analytical approaches but are rarely linked. By doing so, this keyword article suggests new perspectives and point to widely overlooked issues in the literature, in particular in relation to governance of mobility and immobility.
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This article brings together two of my long-term theoretical and analytical interests. It was fun to write - and surprisingly difficult until I found the angle - and I was surprised that there hasn't been engagement between the two literatures. I hope you find it thought-provoking.
Nauja Kleist
Danish Institute for International Studies
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This page is a summary of: Mobility, African Diaspora, December 2019, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18725465-01101009.
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