Diaspora and deviance: an etnographical research on the subcultures of irregular migrations from west-Africa
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Abstract
This article analyses the links between crimes attributed to West African migrants in Italian statistics and the global upswing in political struggles by African and Afro-descendant communities, through an ethnographic research based on participant observation, biographical interviews and a post-colonial interpretation of the European governance of migrations. Crimes of West Africans are here analysed as types of deviance related to a West African youth subculture rebelling against mechanisms of control and criminalization by African and European elites.
Keywords
- West Africa
- Cultural Criminology
- Crimmigration
