The past of slavery has many presents, and the present of exploitation many pasts. This collection brings together five years worth of research into how the legacies of 19th-century enslavement interact with contemporary bondage and exploitation.
This fourth section of our collection Shadows of Slavery takes a step back from empirical case studies to explore neoliberal capitalism's reliance on an irregular, migratory workforce as a whole.
This second section of our collection Shadows of Slavery explores how race, colour and origins shape social dynamics and political imaginations across northwest Africa and the Middle East.
Even student and young professional Senegalese migrants have to navigate the legacies of slavery in Morocco as ‘Africans’.
Former slaves and their descendants in North Africa and the Middle East might be formally free, but the racial legacies of slavery continue to affect intimate, social and political forms of life.
