African clusters in India / Koyal Verma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verma, Koyal, author.

Series:

South Asia in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africans--India--Social conditions.

Africans.

Urban Black people--India.

Urban Black people.

Sociology, Urban--India.

Sociology, Urban.

Marginality, Social--India.

Marginality, Social.

Group identity--India.

Group identity.

Africans--Social conditions.

India.

Physical Description:

xii, 161 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"African Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by the African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrants and demonstrates how their 'African identity' gets associated with drugs, prostitution, and cannibalism. The book brings to the fore how the African migrants experience racial profiling based on a conflated African identity, and how this identity gets generalised irrespective of their different nationalities and leads to social exclusion. This monograph argues that the antagonistic urban environment facilitates the formation of a pan-African identity as a response to biases and stereotypes. It also explores the role of language, culture, and politics of representation to show the process of othering and exclusion in India. Drawing on lived experiences of the migrants, the volume engages with the larger discourse of globalization, liberalisation, and migration within the global south. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of critical race theory, ethnography, urban sociology, African studies, and South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

'African clusters', spatial exclusion and the 'African' identity in India

India-Africa relations : delineating post-colonial and neo-liberal ties in global South

Historical and contemporary patterns of migration from Africa to India

The forced migration of Somali refugees : mapping the impacts of civil war and internal political crisis

Re-reading African clusters : locating housing segregation, gated communities and discriminatory practices

African migrants and discrimination : locating the intersectionality of race, class, gender and religion

African migrants, the state and contesting narratives on racial discrimination : locating critical race theory

The discursive representation and othering of the African identity : race as a signifier

The pan-African identity in India : the emergence of collective identity through solidarity networks and African kitchens

De-colonizing color consciousness : theorizing race and racism in India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Verma, Koyal. African clusters in India

ISBN:

9781032196602

1032196602

9781032233345

1032233346

OCLC:

1346351973

Publisher Number:

99993456036