1st Edition
African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking Border-Crossing Beliefs
By Katherine Luongo
Copyright 2023
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North – Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom – have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.
The work intervenes at the nexus of anthropological, historical,... Read more
Acknowledgements
1 Sanctuary-Seeking in a World With Witchcraft
2 Supernatural States and the Absence of Protection: A Legal Genealogy of Witchcraft Violence
3 Conflicting Codes and Disputed Dangers: Refugee Status Determination in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia
4 Cognizance, Credulity, and Case Law
5 Witchcraft as a Push Factor
Epilogue: When Witchcraft Migrates
Index
Biography
Katherine Angela Luongo is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
