| 书目名称 | Postcolonial African Migration to the West | | 副标题 | A Mimetic Desire for | | 编辑 | Belachew Gebrewold | | 视频video | | | 概述 | The book brings new theoretical insights into postcolonial African migration to the West as a desire for being.It shows that material and physical insecurities are not the main causes of African migra | | 丛书名称 | Politics of Citizenship and Migration | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Postcolonial African migration to the West is not only a spatial movement in search of material and physical security but also an expression of the mimetic .desire for being. by imitating the West or “whitening” oneself against the background of the dehumanizing historical legacies of slavery, colonialism, and Western dominance. It is a flight from oneself, from perceived inadequacies. To migrate to the West is an expression of the desire for being, not through detachment from the “fascinating” West but rather through adoration and imitation of its lifestyle, beauty ideals, and soft and hard power, and by living in the West. The model (the West) builds ubiquitous anti-migrant physical and virtual fences, which the imitator tries to overcome. The more the model re-strengthens these fences, the more the imitator tries to scale them. The anti-migrant fences are the meeting point of the model’s perceived superiority, admirability, and desirability on the one hand, and on the other hand the imitator’s inferiority complex and inner tension between the paradoxical desire for detachment from the model and its passionate imitation at the same time. This book argues that African migration t | | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | | 关键词 | African migration; Root causes of migration; Migration theories; Migration policies; Mimetic theory; Migr | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58568-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-58570-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-58568-5Series ISSN 2520-8896 Series E-ISSN 2520-890X | | issn_series | 2520-8896 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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