Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings - From Oppression to Liberation

This book addresses the intricate relationships between mobility, identity, and power structures, focusing on how these dynamics are shaped by omnicolonialism and challenged through communal and digital practices. The core of this manuscript lies in challenging the European dominant narrative that frame migration as a crisis and racialized individuals as threats, arguing instead in favour of translocal networks of belonging and collective emotional, sensory and epistemic intelligence. The book explores the specific case of high-skilled racialized migrants in Finland - a country that ranked the happiest in the world for seven years in a row. It underscores how the omnicolonial matrix seeks to alienate migrants from their heritages, forcing them into oppressive categories of economic utility and racialized stereotypes hindering their growth. However as shown throughout this manuscript, marginalized individuals challenge the system by enacting sites of resistance and belonging that defy the capitalist logics of commodification and exploitation. Drawing on anticolonial theoretical, historical, methodological and empirical resources, this manuscript presents an innovative framework, Critical Phenomenology of Interaction, to analyze how oppressed individuals, in fragmented European nation-states, both experience and resist the omnicolonial matrix in their (digitally artefacted) everyday social interactions.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: For a Critical Phenomenology of Interaction
1. Positionality of the Author and Context of the Research
2. Critical Phenomenology of Interaction, a Novel Framework
Part II: The Self, the Other, and their Lived Experience of the World
3. Identity (Co)Construction, a Multimodal Phenomenon
4. The Embodied Experience of the World
Part III: Being-in-the-Colonial-World: Racism and Migration in Colonial Fortress Europe
5. Race as a Political Construct and Racism as a Political Project
6. The European "(Anti)Migration Obsession"
Part IV: Towards Collective Liberation, Towards Ubuntu
7. Enacting Translocality: From the Uprooted Migrant to the Connected Migrant
8. Migrant Bodies: From Oppression to Emancipation
Conclusion

Bibliography
About the Author
Index

About the author

Samira Ibnelkaïd

Product details

• Authors: Samira Ibnelkaid, Samira Ibnelkaïd
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.07.2026
• EAN: 9781666941128
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-112-8
• No. of pages: 1
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Communication Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Communication Theory