African Clusters in India

di Koyal Verma (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023

African Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrants and demonstrates how their ‘African identity’ gets associated with drugs, prostitution, and cannibalism. The book brings to the fore how African migrants experience racial profiling based on a conflated African identity and how this identity gets generalized irrespective of the different nationalities and leads to social exclusion. This monograph argues that the antagonistic urban environment gives rise to the formation of a pan-African identity as a response to cultural biases and stereotypes. Thus, it explores the role of language, culture, and politics of representation to show the process of ‘othering’ and exclusion in India. Drawing on lived experiences of the migrants, the volume engages with the larger discourse of globalization, liberalization, and migration within the global south. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical race theory, ethnography, urban sociology, African studies, and South Asian studies.

• Autore: Koyal Verma
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: South Asia in Context
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 162 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 480 gr.
• EAN: 9781032196602

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