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Essentialism and the making of African refugees
African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.
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Rose Jaji is an anthropologist, senior lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, and author of Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration.
African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.