We are All Africans Here

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. Her publications include Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland (Routledge, 2019).

“Through poignant vignettes captured along her research trajectory, Loftsdóttir provides a thoughtful discussion of various conceptual considerations of mobility… Overall, the book presents a nuanced discussion of contemporary migration dynamics in a (post-)racialized world. The author consistently reminds us that African migrants are to be understood on their terms; the desire to migrate to Europe does not exist in a vacuum and is the result of a plethora of socio-economic factors.” • Ethnic and Racial Studies“Loftsdóttir offers an innovative ethnographic and theoretical contribution that eloquently bridges the lived experiences of precarious Nigerien men and West Africans in general in Europe with nuanced theoretical analyses of Europe as a concept, race, and mobility.” • Scott M. Youngstedt, Saginaw Valley State University“A ruminative, holistic treatment of a number of interconnected subjects related to globalization, migration, mobility, race, ethnicity, and indigeneity, Europe’s colonial history and its past and current entanglements with Africa.” • Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race Relations

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Making Precarious MigrantsChapter 1. Living in Divided Europe: The Theme Park and the StreetChapter 2. “Enough of Refugees”: Depictions of Precarious Migrants in EuropeChapter 3. Into the Heart of Europe: Migrants in Brussels and BeyondChapter 4. Global Citizens and the BackstageChapter 5. Multicultural Europe: Invasions against European Values?Part II: Entangled HistoriesChapter 6. This is All in the Past Now: Niger and a Global WorldChapter 7. Nostalgic Colonialism: Different Kinds of OthernessChapter 8. Spaces of Innocence: Belgium’s Colonial History and BeyondPart III: Europe’s Past and FutureChapter 9. The Heart of Darkness: EUrope as a ConceptConclusion: Welcome to the Future: Dismaland and Anxieties in EuropeReferencesIndex