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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShadows of slavery part two: race, colour and origins in northwest Africa and the Middle East
This second section of our collection Shadows of Slavery explores how race, colour and origins shape social dynamics...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhom should I marry? Genealogical purity and the shadows of slavery in southern Senegal
Hard choices are made when arranged marriages collide with a slave past.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe multiple roots of Emiratiness: the cosmopolitan history of Emirati society
The UAE, like many other Arabian Gulf States, claims to be home to a homogenous Arab population. In doing so it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“She is not a ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia
Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre Haratines black Moors or just black?
The racialisation of the anti-slavery struggle in Mauritania has created a patchwork of identities and alliances.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOn colour and origin: the case of the akhdam in Yemen
The shift towards a collective identity based on race has had major implications for Yemen’s most marginalised people.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“In the skin of a black”: Senegalese students and young professionals in Rabat
Even student and young professional Senegalese migrants have to navigate the legacies of slavery in Morocco as ‘Africans’.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeing 'black' in North Africa and the Middle East
Former slaves and their descendants in North Africa and the Middle East might be formally free, but the racial...