... and women have embarked on dangerous journeys on makeshift boats across the Mediterranean Sea to Eu - Immigration...

...Rory Bester Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 AFRICA REMIX An Immigrant, to Be Looked at from the other Side of Reinforced Glass Rory Bester I n Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement...

... experience, and an equally unstable subject. These works reclaim the imagery associated with the “abject immigrant” to restore their agency as well as their humanity. Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019114 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916916 © 2019 by Nka Publications Allan deSouza...

.... This growing interest, however, has been taking place within an extremely xenophobic environment of anti-immigration legislation, the closing of borders to the West, and a callous disregard for African and non-Western people’s lives. Hence, this essay addresses the need for an innovative framework...

.... French hip-hop is the second-largest-selling in its genre in the world, and it is not surprising that it has resonated with young immigrant populations. There is a vital jazz scene in France but also a growing specter of racism. I am interested in recording the ways in which black bodies exist...

... long before I physically set foot on Spanish shores. This was a place in Europe from which one can see Africa. The Strait of Gibraltar is the door to Europe for many African immigrants who risk their lives in search of a better life. In this stretch of ocean, boats often drop people off in the rela...

...Octavio Zaya Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 ders for and within itself), is an overwhelming sense of dislocation. The dissolution of any sense of belonging is particularly haunting to those immigrants who have spent most of their lives in Europe...

... of immigration, centers for peace and tolerance, a children’s story center, museums for performance art, and even museums of heartbreak.1 It is some- times easy to lose sight...

... and restrained, under• The flow amidst Western Europe, the Middle East, India, stated and elegant, a refreshing antidote to generalized hysteria. Africa and the Caribbean is a mixed blessing. Immigrants have As curator Salah Hassan notes, Shatat (which opened...

... have assumed. I legislating of myriad anti-immigration laws designed to After all, Europe is not only a peninsula that is part of the greater I close the borders of Europe and the West to non-Western Asian landmass but is well connected in most of its...

... Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021 In contrast to the cause célèbre of five hun- Venice Biennale (All the World s Futures), is not at dred employed undocumented immigrants who all far-fetched, especially in the case of IP. Enwezor s had occupied Paris s Musée national de l histoire de...

.... Fiona Tan's filmic installation Countenance (2002) looks tion of cities and are to that extent utopic. These projects at German faces through the eyes of a newly arrived immigrant include Isa Genzhen, New Buildings for Berlin (2000), Bodys Isek from Indonesia, reversing...

... and immigration policies that challenge the reality of cosmopolitanism. The act of rethinking cosmopolitanism takes inspiration from Édouard Glissant s poetics of relation, the world seen in relation rather than in disconnection, a perspective that affirms and par- ticipates in the common ground between...

... of African immigrants in in contact with everything possible” and that o ers France, opening debate on issues such as racism and the greatest possibility for mapping intersecting his- employment discrimination later taken up in Afri- tories, politics, economics, and cultural impulses.7 can ctional lms...

... such as the 1971 Immigration Act restricted the ability of ethnic minority communities in the Commonwealth to lead safe and fulfilling lives. The 1971 Immigration Act, in particular, used language that criminalized people of color in order to restrict and police their entry into the United Kingdom.8 Low-budget...

...Kim Levin Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 Manifesto 3's four curators—Ole their 'powerless structures'—Ljubl• immigrant in the U.S who MANIFESTA III Bouman...

..., and the main philosophical and political trend in the United not Catalan, as their mother-tongue.^ The recent, massive arrival States has consisted always in defining identity through of non-European immigrants to Catalunya has only aggravated the body This stems from...

... with a tography? departure point in Morocco and continued on in France. But what was striking and sad in France is that TE: You see, I grew up in Courneuve, outside of Paris, we had immigrated to a different country...

... in visible in the background of the the Eastern Caribbean, Terry Bod• work are often fundamental to a die immigrated to New York more complete reading: her A where he...

... for a week of display and networking (without competitions). New African immigrant communities animate and reanimate bat• tles for Dakar's cityscape. Lebanese and French...