African Migrations

This book explores the hybrid landscapes of African migration and offers new insights into the complexity of migratory movements and migrant experiences associated with the African continent. The methodological approaches within this volume include sociolinguistic analysis, literary analysis, and autoethnography.

This volume offers rich and intriguing engagement with one of the defining themes of our time: mobility and displacement, drawing on literary and sociolinguistic analyses. Its focus on these themes in, around, and from Africa, and the novel theoretical perspectives are a welcome addition to the existing literature.

This book provides a fascinating combination of methodological approaches to migrant spaces and positions centralized on Foucault’s heterotopia/utopia concepts. The book brings us from the micro-storia of a family of Moroccan descent in Catalonia, to healing practices in an African diaspora church in Massachusetts, from interviews with 42 women in rural Spain to an activist rapper in Molenbeek. This is a genuinely instructive work on how to do research on the practices and everyday lives of migrants.

Sarali Gintsburg is a researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra.
Ruth Breeze is professor of English at the University of Navarra.