Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
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Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris). / Pelckmans, Lotte.
In: Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2013, p. 45-67.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)
AU - Pelckmans, Lotte
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - “Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory work’ of slavery. The focus is on how Fulɓe (and Soninke) migrants in Bamako and Paris ‘move with’ or ‘move back into’ slave status on specific moments in space and time. Even though cities offer opportunities to silence memories about their slave past, this can be only temporal and necessarily intersects with age, class, gender, etc. The data presented demonstrate that under specific conditions, urban contexts can also reproduce – even if temporarily – stigma, labour divisions and hierarchical inequalities related to the memory of slavery.
AB - “Moving memories of slavery” are those memories of internal African slavery that move with West African migrants to urban areas. Different types of mobility towards and within urban contexts can be considered as non-discursive, embodied forms of ‘memory work’ of slavery. The focus is on how Fulɓe (and Soninke) migrants in Bamako and Paris ‘move with’ or ‘move back into’ slave status on specific moments in space and time. Even though cities offer opportunities to silence memories about their slave past, this can be only temporal and necessarily intersects with age, class, gender, etc. The data presented demonstrate that under specific conditions, urban contexts can also reproduce – even if temporarily – stigma, labour divisions and hierarchical inequalities related to the memory of slavery.
KW - Memory
KW - Migration
KW - Slavery
KW - Bamako
KW - Fulani
KW - Paris
KW - Soninke
KW - Status
KW - Africa
U2 - 10.4000/remi.6266
DO - 10.4000/remi.6266
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 45
EP - 67
JO - Revue europeenne des migrations internationales
JF - Revue europeenne des migrations internationales
SN - 0765-0752
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 201556852