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

该项目集中于塞内加尔殖民后期和后殖民政治史中的国际移徙记忆。从国外返回的移民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。关于移徙问题的突出的公开叙述也在政治话语中得到利用和质疑。通过收集前移民的口述历史，并研究流行和官方的移民代表，我研究这些过程之间的紧张关系。对个人和公众记忆的调查将揭示在塞内加尔国家建设过程中谁的声音被抹去。

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.