PART II Children under colonial and postcolonial rule
PART I How to understand childhoods in the postcolonial context
and evaporating water from the filthy gutters. The sun bared the reality of our lives and everything was so harsh it was a mystery that we could understand and care for one another or for anything at all. (Azaro, the little boy from the spirit world, in the novel The Famished Road by the Nigerian author Ben Okri, 1993 , pp 160–1) Introduction Dutch anthropologist Olga Nieuwenhuys ( 2013 : 4) explains the necessity of postcolonial perspective in childhood studies with three arguments: first, ‘the dominance of the North over the South is inextricably linked
This powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts.
Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics in the present day. These case studies across Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field.
As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.
scholarly literatures. This book is a contribution to that endeavor. We have identified seven cross cutting themes within the volume: the enduring power of ideas of race and racial hierarchy in responses to forced migration; postcolonial states managing mobile populations in their own interests; states seeking to spatially organize populations along modern/colonial lines; the role of private companies and non-state actors; the role of technologies for surveillance, categorization and control; and the fraught politics of sanctuary and hospitality. In the following sections
system and possible strategies of desistance ( Crosby, 2016 ; Delgado and Stefancic, 2017 ; Dutil, 2020 ). Likewise, an awareness of the postcolonial Other will inform an understanding of Black and mixed-heritage boys’ experience within society ( Fanon, 1967 ; Glynn, 2014 ). A focus on the family, the Black community, contested spaces, the education and the criminal justice system(s) can provide much to inform how practice and policy can develop effective strategies of desistance ( McHugh, 2018 ; Wainwright, et al, 2020 ; Wainwright, 2021 ). Black and
The peculiar object of postcolonial studies is not a natural entity, like an elephant, or even a social subject regarded as sharing the cultural world of the observer, but one formed as a colonial object, an inferior and alien ‘Other’ to be studied by a superior and central ‘Self’. Since the ‘elephant’ can speak, the problem is not just to represent it but to create conditions that would enable it to represent itself. (Fernando Coronil, ‘Elephants in the Americas? Latin American Postcolonial Studies and Global Decolonization’, 2008: 413) Introduction In
Introduction Postcolonial theories in general, and concerning justice and injustice more particularly, present a significant challenge to approaches to justice offered in most of the preceding chapters. They directly challenge the dominance of ‘western’, ‘Global North’ or ‘Eurocentric’ thinking that mark these other traditions or schools (and which were complicit in European imperialism and colonialism), even if they remain significantly indebted to (some of) the epistemologies and problematics that define the western canon. Postcolonial theory is thus not
This chapter sets out the foundation for my analysis of responses to polygamous marriages in English law and the courts. I draw from the insights provided by critical postcolonial feminist literature and the critiques of orientalism and imperialism to shed light on the law and women’s experiences and attitudes concerning polygamous marriages. After providing a brief overview of the relevance of critical postcolonial theory and feminist thought, I employ two tools from this approach to advance understandings of polygamous marriage regulation in English law. The
prosecute) and combat such atrocities and crimes more effectively. Not least by children themselves, who can now rely on rights of their own, which are guaranteed internationally. In recent years, research approaches have emerged which can be helpful for a differentiated evaluation of children’s rights – also in postcolonial contexts. These include concepts like ‘children’s rights from below’ (Liebel, 2012a ), ‘living rights’ (Hanson and Nieuwenhuys, 2013 ) or ‘critical children’s rights studies’ (Vandenhole et al, 2015 ). They have in common that they comprehend
