The transnational lives and third space subjectivities of British Nigerian girls

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ID4262864
AuthorsPamela Kea (University of Sussex, corresponding author), Pamela Jennifer Kea (Anthropology, University of Sussex Falmer Brighton BN1 9SJ UK)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue1
Pages170-189
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12247
OpenAlexW2915811288
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited69

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in 2012 on British Nigerian young women who have gone to boarding school in Nigeria and returned to attend university in the UK, I use the concept of third space as a heuristic device for understanding their transnational subjectivities and practices. I argue that, for some, this third space is a transgressive one in which they can craft alternative subjectivities and narratives about African culture and political economy. Applying insights from decolonial theory, I seek to build on the transgressive nature of this third space. In positioning themselves variously as Londoners, Nigerians, dual and post-nationals, they express key features of contemporary transnational European subjectivities. Yet, parental expectations that they marry Nigerians and members of the Nigerian diaspora serve to reproduce the racial distinctions and nationalist rhetoric of colonial modernity that their third space subjectivities contest

Colonialism · CONTEST · Diaspora · Late modernity · Modernity · Narrative · Nationalism · Nigerians · Political science · Politics · Racialization · Sociology · Transgressive · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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