Small, A.H. (2016) Sociétés d’accueil et de téranga : emigration and immigration in three texts by Fatou Diome. Francosphères, 8 (1). pp. 41-55. ISSN 2046-3820
Abstract
Throughout his career the sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad argued that emigration and immigration are interdependent. He warns against media and political representations of migration which focus solely on the country of arrival and thus make it more difficult for us to understand the ‘double’ nature of migration. In this article we explore the epistemological and political dangers analysed by Sayad (an ‘ethnocentric’ notion of immigration) and by Anne McClintock (a ‘eurocentric’ idea of the postcolonial) through a reading of three texts by the Senegalese writer Fatou Diome. This approach allows a better understanding of certain aspects of migration rarely discussed in the press and in political discourse in Europe, while also showing that processes of myth-making about migration persist on all sides.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Fatou Diome; Abdelmalek Sayad; migration; immigration; accueil; terangaFatou Diome; Abdelmalek Sayad; migration; immigration; accueil; teranga |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of Languages and Cultures (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2017 14:48 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2019 14:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3828/franc.2019.3 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98585 |