Sumários

Euro-African mobility

4 Outubro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos


Euro-African border and border crossings: The Mediterranean

Post-Colonial political and social issues - mobility, diaspora and asylum

Migration and/or Mobility in African Studies (debate on concepts and practices).

African migrations in Europe: how to study African diasporas and "irregular" migrants in Europe.

The migrants' voice: self-narrative, objects and memories of migration to Europe.

Border bodies: ethnography of the treatment of migrants on their arrival in Lampedusa.

The Archive of Migrant Memories.

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Film screenings:

Como un uomo sulla terra, by Dagmayi Ymer

To whom it may concern, by Zakaria Mohamed Ali

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Readings:

Gatta, Gianluca, 2012, Luoghi migranti. Tra clandestinità e spazi pubblici , Pellegrini, Cosenza.

Gatta, Gianluca. 2012, "Corpi di frontiera. Etnografia del trattamento dei migranti al loro arrivo a Lampedusa", in AM. Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica , n. 33/34, pp. 129-161.

UNECA. 2013. Report: International Migration and Development in Africa: The Migration and Climate Nexus. UNECA.

Vacchiano, Francesco. 2013. Fencing in the South. The Strait of Gibraltar as a Paradigm of the New Border Regime in the Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterraneean Studies.

Vacchiano, Francesco. 2014. Beyond borders and limits: Moroccan migrating adolescents between desire, vulnerability and risk. Saúde e Sociedade, 23, 1.

Readings:

Mckenzie, Robert and Triulzi, Alessandro. 2013. Long Journeys. African migrants on the road. Leiden: Brill.

MacGaffey, Janet and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy. 2002. Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Indiana University Press.

Agier, Michel and Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémi (eds). 2012. L'Afrique des banlieues françaises. Paris: Paari.

Bayart, Jean-François. 2010. Les études postcoloniales, un carnaval académique. Paris: Khartala..

Santinho, Cristina. 2010. Afinal que asilo é este que não nos protege? Etnográfica, 17, 1

Presentation of the Course - Europe-Africa Relations: an entangled relation

27 Setembro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos


General introduction to the Course, presentation of the lecture and seminar schedule. 



Europe-Africa Relations: an entangled relation from the medieval ages to the contemporary world. Conceptual, geographic and political borders.

African slavery, a thorn that never goes away.

Imperial ideologies and the shaping of Euro-African relations

Cruzaders and Jihadis in Africa, old and new forms.

From the Tail of Europe to the Horn of Africa: Europe-Ethiopia relations - a convoluted history and an uncertain future.


Readings:


Relano, Francesc. 2002. The shaping of Africa: Cosmographic Discourse and Cartographic Science in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Ramos, Manuel João. 2006. Essays in Christian Mythology: The metamorphoses of Prester John. Lanham: UPA.

Markowitz, Claude and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. 2009. « Navigation, exploration, colonisation. Pour en finir avec les Grandes Découvertes », dans Histoire du monde au XVe siècle, (dir.) P. Boucheron, Paris, Fayard,, p. 603-618.

M'Bokolo, Elikia. 1969. Afrique noire. Histoire et civilizations. Paris, Hatier.


By Manuel João Ramos (CEI-IUL)