African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking - Border-Crossing Beliefs

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 UK - have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.

List of contents

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

About the author

Katherine Angela Luongo is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Summary

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 UK – have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Luongo, Luongo Katherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032128542
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212854-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Law and Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LAW / International, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, African History, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Asylum Law