Mobility

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

منو

" Mobility "
Nauja Kleist

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063819
Doc. No	:	LA107448
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01101009‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Nauja Kleist
Title & Author	:	Mobility [Article]\ Nauja Kleist
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African Diaspora
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1-2
Page No	:	71–86
Abstract	:	In this keyword, I reflect upon African diaspora in a mobilities perspective, exploring analytical and empirical resonance and tensions. Despite the boom of diaspora and mobilities studies in the last decades, research explicitly linking these two literatures is still nascent. Exploring diaspora through a mobilities perspective, I suggest that attention to regimes of mobilities and migratory trajectories can yield important insights. The first perspective highlights how mobility and immobility is governed, facilitated or constrained historically and today, shedding light on the unequal distribution of safe, legal and free (im)mobility for African diaspora groups, whether ‘old’ or ‘new’; the second illuminates the twists and turns of migratory journeys or displacement, bringing attention beyond the host land – homeland axis found in some diaspora studies. Finally, turning the analytical lens around, I dwell upon temporality and belonging in diaspora studies and how they link to mobility, with emphasis on potentiality and elusiveness rather than fixity and stability.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	belonging
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	immobility
Descriptor	:	migration
Descriptor	:	potentiality
Descriptor	:	regimes of mobility
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01101009‬