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Postcolonial African Migration to the West: A Mimetic Desire for Being

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By (author): Belachew Gebrewold

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 models perceived superiority, admirability, and desirability on the one hand, and on the other hand the imitators 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 to the West will continue even in the absence of poverty, conflicts, and climate change because it is also about the mimetic desire for being.

 

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  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jul 2024
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783031585678

About Belachew Gebrewold

Belachew Gebrewold is a professor of International Relations and the Head of Department and Studies of Social Work and Social Policy at MCI Innsbruck Austria. His main research areas are African politics conflicts and migration. His publications include various peer-reviewed articles monographs and edited volumes such as Africa and Fortress Europe 2007; Anatomy of Violence 2009; Global Security Triangle 2010; Understanding Migrant Decisions 2016; Human Trafficking and Exploitation 2017. He was also a member of the steering committee of the UN Global Compact for Regular Safe and Orderly Migration preparatory process in 2017.  

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