1st Edition

African Clusters in India

By Koyal Verma Copyright 2023
174 Pages
by Routledge India

174 Pages
by Routledge India

174 Pages
by Routledge India

African Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by 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 African migrants experience racial profiling based on a conflated African identity and how this identity gets... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

PART I

Introduction

1 ‘African Clusters,’ Spatial Exclusion, and ‘African’ Identity in India

PART II

The Emergence of African Clusters in India

2 India-Africa Relations: Delineating Post-colonial and Neoliberal Ties in Global South

3 Historical and Contemporary Patterns of Migration from Africa to India

4 The Forced Migration of Somali Refugees: Mapping the Impacts of Civil War and Internal Political Crisis

5 Re-reading ‘African’ Clusters: Locating Housing Segregation, Gated Communities, and Discriminatory Practices

PART III

Race, Representation, and Othering: Lived Experiences from the African Cluster

6 African Migrants and Discrimination: Locating the Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and Religion

7 African Migrants, the State, and Contesting Narratives on Racial Discrimination: Locating Critical Race Theory

8 Discursive Representation and Othering of the African Identity: Race as a Signifier

9 The Pan-African Identity in India: The Emergence of Collective Identity through Solidarity Networks and African Kitchens

PART IV

The Way Forward

10 De-colonizing Colour Consciousness: Theorzing Race and Racism in India

Index

Biography

Koyal Verma is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Bennett University. She has taught at Delhi University in colleges like Miranda House, Hindu College, and Maitreyi College, as well as Ambedkar University Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has done research for projects funded by Yale University, UNESCO, Ford Foundation, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Her areas of specialization are urban sociology, migration studies, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.