Cultures and Exile and the Political Kingdom: Migration, Memory and Nation-Building in Senegal

该项目以塞内加尔殖民后期和殖民后政治史中关于国际移徙的记忆为中心。移民从国外返回，带来了新的社会和文化资源，使他们能够更独立地参与政治行动。政治话语中也使用和争论了突出的关于移民的公共叙述。通过收集前移民的口述历史和审查流行的和官方的移民陈述，我研究了这些过程之间的紧张关系。这项对个人和公共记忆的调查将揭示谁的声音在塞内加尔的建国过程中被抹去了。

This project centres memories of international migration in the late colonial and postcolonial political history of Senegal. Migrants returned from abroad with new social and cultural resources that allowed them to participate in political action more independently. Prominent public narratives of migration were also used and contested in political discourse. By gathering oral histories from former migrants and examining popular and official representations of migration, I study the tension between these processes. This inquiry into personal and public memory will reveal whose voices have been erased in the course of nation-building in Senegal.