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Displacement and borders have featured in the book so far, and in this chapter the border is encountered in the form of physical barriers such as security fences, heavily policed coastal waters and the boundaries of the nation-state in Europe with its powerful legacy of coloniality pushing borders further and further into Africa. Although the majority of those migrating in Africa move within the continent, sufficient numbers have attempted to enter Europe and the US to the extent that this movement of people, together with those from the Middle East, has produced a far-right populist backlash constructed around the ‘immigrant’ who is seen as part of a calculated replacement of ‘ethnic’ (white) Europeans or, in the US, as an agent of ‘white genocide’. A brief exploration of this phase of populism will constitute the opening sections of the chapter, followed by an analysis of Those Who Jump (2016) and The Gurugu Pledge (2017), a film and a novel set on the African/EU border in Morocco. The final section will examine African Titanics (2014 [2008]), a novel which reflects on the ‘seduction’ of the African migrant by Europe, the travails of the desert journey and the dereliction of care at sea.
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Bromley, R. (2021). Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses. In: Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73596-8_5
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