Papers by Nicole Grégoire
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This edited volume addresses the construction of identity classifications underlying the new form... more This edited volume addresses the construction of identity classifications underlying the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are to be found in contemporary Europe. Its scope covers practices of categorization and of resistance, both by majority groups
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La Libre Belgique, Dec 13, 2011
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Séminaire international organisé à l'Institut de Sociologie de l'ULB par le MAM (Migratio... more Séminaire international organisé à l'Institut de Sociologie de l'ULB par le MAM (Migrations, asiles, multiculturalisme)info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublishe
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En Belgique, a l’instar d’autres populations d’origine immigree, les populations d’origine africa... more En Belgique, a l’instar d’autres populations d’origine immigree, les populations d’origine africaine subsaharienne font face a une relative impuissance. Cette derniere peut-etre determinee en fonction de criteres tels que l’acces a l’emploi, au logement, a l’enseignement, ou encore le statut juridico-politique. Dans ma these, je m’interesse aux strategies mises en place par ces populations afin d’ameliorer collectivement leur sort. J’articule la question des consequences sociales et culturelles de la migration en termes de dialectique de l’identification, focalisee notamment sur l’utilisation couramment synonymique des categories ethno-raciales « africain », « subsaharien » et « noir », avec celle des formes de l’action collective degagees dans le cadre des social movement studies. Ma reflexion part d’une proposition theorique formulee de facon synthetique par Pnina Werbner et suggerant que, malgre le climat concurrentiel que la formation et l’expansion d’associations ethniques peut...
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2018
Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu's Minority Women and Austerity offers an important and much needed... more Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu's Minority Women and Austerity offers an important and much needed contribution to discussions on austerity, social movements, race and gender in Europe. Centring their analysis of the interplay between the 2008 economic crisis and activism in Europe on minority women and using a critical race studies and a black feminist epistemological framework, they make a bold epistemological move since, as the authors extensively demonstrate, European political racelessness renders intersectional claims and activism invisible, inaudible and illegitimate, while dominant social movement theories tend to ignore important forms of collective action that minority women develop. Thanks to their epistemological and analytical framework, their qualitative study, although limited to three national contexts, offers a lot of room for thinking both generalization and differentiation across and beyond their case-studies. Bassel and Emejulu's work will thus certainly be inspiring for scholars working on similar issues in other European countries.
African Diaspora, 2010
Drawing on a social movement theoretical framework, the paper explores the collective action desi... more Drawing on a social movement theoretical framework, the paper explores the collective action desires and attempts expressed within the African associational milieu in Belgium to improve the social, economic and political being of the African-rooted people in Belgium. It thus focuses on the emergence of non-profit organisations aiming at mobilising people of sub-Saharan African descent under a common ‘Pan-African’ banner. It analyses the link between the context for the emergence of these associations ‐ in which the state played an important role ‐ their working modes and their members’ affiliation strategies, as a way to address a ‘lack of mobilisation’ frequently deplored by many African associational leaders. Secondly, it shows how a certain African elite tries to go beyond old rivalries and previous failures, by shaping a Pan-African community, symbolically located both in the African life ‘here’ (in Belgium and by extension Europe) and ‘there’ (in Africa).
The concept of African transnational "communities" is now one of the most explored ethnoscapes 1 ... more The concept of African transnational "communities" is now one of the most explored ethnoscapes 1 in anthropology and postcolonial studies (Appadurai, 1996). Many authors have shown the strength of migratory, economic, religious and political networks linking Africans and people of African descent living in different parts of the world (
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Papers by Nicole Grégoire