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The transnational lives and third space subjectivities of British Nigerian girls

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:48 authored by Pamela KeaPamela Kea
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.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Global Networks

ISSN

1470-2266

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

1

Volume

20

Page range

170-189

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-02-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-06-07

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-02-07

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