African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking

Auteur

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

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

Contenu

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