African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking: Border-Crossing Beliefs

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By: Katherine Luongo

This book analyzes how over the last two decades, immigration regimes in three primary refugee-receiving states in the Global North — Canada, Australia, and the UK — have engaged with allegations about witchcraft-driven violence made by asylum seekers coming from Anglophone countries across the African continent. The work intervenes at the nexus of anthropological, historical, legal, developmental, and human rights literatures to offer fresh insights into extrajudicial violence and global migration.

Biography

Katherine Angela Luongo is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Contents:

1. Sanctuary-Seeking in a World with Witchcraft
   2. Supernatural States and the Absence of Protection: A Legal Genealogy of Witchcraft Violence
   3. Conflicting Codes and Disputed Dangers: Refugee Status Determination in Canada, the UK, and Australia
   4. Cognizance, Credulity, and Case Law
   5. Witchcraft as a Push Factor
   Epilogue – When Witchcraft Migrates

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Who is this book for?
Legal scholars, anthropologists, human rights advocates and migration policy experts working in refugee law and African studies.

Which jurisdictions does it examine?
Canada, Australia and the UK, and how their immigration regimes engage with witchcraft-related asylum claims from Anglophone Africa.

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