Postcoloniality and Forced Migration: Mobility, Control, and Agency

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 of the present day. These case studies, covering 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.

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.

Sharla M. Fett is Professor of History at Occidental College.

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield.

Nina Sahraoui is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA), CNRS.

Eva Magdalena Stambøl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo and the Free University of Berlin.