Africans in Europe Working Group will especially look at the last decade, a time of Europe’s extraordinary African refugee crises, within longer histories of African migrations and diasporas into Europe. Since 2010, there has been an explosion of a new documentary and analytic materials, much of it very creative and innovative into the ways Africans are arriving into Europe, licitly and illicitly. What is striking is how interdisciplinary these materials are. Much of the hard — quantitative, legal, epidemiological, and social scientific — data has been created in and near European Union knowledge centers and data banks. The Working Group would provide insight into the history of, tensions within, and methods of the European Union. At the same time, scholars and artists from the softer social sciences and the humanities have been producing and documenting the experiences of African migrants entering Europe, from those with ghastly arrival stories to those who are artists, musician, academics, and novelists producing narratives (stories, memoirs, songs and films) of diverse kinds.
Coordinator: Dr. Nancy Rose Hunt
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