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. It advances understandings of how witchcraft beliefs and practices have persisted as significant engines of violence in the contemporary world.

The book will be essential reading for students and researchers in legal anthropology, African studies, human rights, transnational history, migration and refugee law and policy, and the history and anthropology of witchcraft.

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

Keywords: Witchcraft asylum, refugee law, African migration, cultural persecution, legal anthropology

Target Audience: Legal scholars, anthropologists, human rights advocates, migration policy experts, African studies researchers

Genre: Legal studies, Anthropology, Human rights, Migration studies, African studies

Links to International Organizations/Institutions:

• International Network Against Witchcraft Accusations and Ritual Abuse: theinternationalnetwork.org
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): unhcr.org
• Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): ohchr.org
• Refugees International: refugeesinternational.org
• International Organization for Migration (IOM): iom.int
• International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP): refugeerights.org
• International Rescue Committee (IRC): rescue.org
• Human Rights Watch: hrw.org
• Amnesty International: amnesty.org