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Item Open Access An inhospitable port in the storm: Recent clandestine West African migrants and the quest for diasporic recognition(The Situated Politics of Belonging, 2006-01-01) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Item Open Access "Black folk here and there": Repositioning other(ed) African diaspora(s) in/and "Europexs"(The African Diaspora and the Disciplines, 2010-12-01) Ifekwunigwe, JOThe story I will begin to recount is one that seeks to expand the way we think about African diaspora(s) in/and "Europe." Using broad brushstrokes, I will explore two compound problematics that stand in as distillations rather than crystallizations of relevant debates. First, why is it difficult to confine or define the African Diaspora in/and Europe, and what impact has the pioneering work of Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy had on the emergence of a dominant Anglophone Black [North] Atlanticist approach to African Diaspora Studies in Europe?1 Second, how might a reconceptualization of "new" transnational/extracolonial African diasporas offer a framework that unsettles the conceptual "tidiness"-as discursive formations-of "Europe," "Africa," and the "African Diaspora"?2 Finally, I will close with some polemical thoughts about potential impediments to proper diasporic dialogue "here and there." 3. © 2010 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved.Item Open Access Diaspora's Daughters/Africa's Orphans?: On Authenticity, Lineage, and 'Mixed Race' Identity(Black British Feminism, 1997) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Introduction: Rethinking 'Mixed Race' Studies(Mixed Race Studies Reader, 2004-04) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Mixed-ness(Racisms, 2009-11-25) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Multiple Occupancies:Locating Home Base(Frontlines-Backyards, 1998) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Old Whine, New Vassals: Are Diaspora and Hybridity Postmodern Inventions?(New ethnicities, old racisms?, 1999) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Re-Membering 'Race': On Gender, 'Mixed Race' and Family in the English-African Diaspora(Rethinking mixed race, 2001-05-20) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Recasting 'Black Venus' in the new African Diaspora(Women's Studies International Forum, 2004-10-01) Ifekwunigwe, JOThis article explores the ways in which transnational feminist analysis can be deployed to reconfigure new gendered and racialized cartographies of the African Diaspora in Europe. First, I position contemporary film representations of trafficked Nigerian sex workers in Italy in dialogical relation to 19th century discourses of black sexuality - in particular, Sharpley-Whiting's (1999) reinscribed 'Black Venus Master Narrative' - and assess historical and geographical (dis)continuities in their modes of signification. Second, by linking endemic factors feeding the supply of Nigerian women for the purposes of (in)voluntary participation in the Italian sex industry, such as the localized feminization of poverty and regionally specific perceptions of sex work as a temporary economic strategy, I engage with broader feminist debates on victimization and agency in global sex work and migration literatures. In doing so, this dialectical think piece highlights the gendered complexities of new African diasporic formations and the ways in which their growth is facilitated by broader illegal networks that shape and are shaped by vicissitudes in glocalized economies. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Item Open Access Scattered belongings: Reconfiguring the 'African' in the English-African diaspora(New African Diasporas, 2003-03-19) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access Venus and Serena are "Doing it" for Themselves: Theorizing Sporting Celebrity, Marxism and Black Feminisms for "The Hip-Hop Generation"(Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport, 2008-12-05) Ifekwunigwe, JOItem Open Access When the Mirror Speaks: the Poetics and Problematics of Psychic Performance for Métisse Women in Bristol(Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Change, 1999) Ifekwunigwe, JO