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Debele, Serawit:
Waiting as a site of subject formation : examining collective prayers by Ethiopian asylum seekers in Germany.
In: Critical African Studies.
Bd. 12
(2020)
Heft 1
.
- S. 52-64.
ISSN 2040-7211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2019.1697311
Abstract
In this article I look at collective payers by Ethiopian asylum seekers to explore how religious narratives are mobilized to deal with temporal angst in the context of waiting. I posit that waiting is a site of multifaceted struggles in which subjectivities are constituted, in response to both the violence waiting imposes and the anticipated freedom it carries with it. Asylum seekers confront life in waiting in various ways until they attain what they wait for and ‘settle’ in the host country. To settle is imagined as living in Europe as independent and self-reliant workers who could generate their own income which is contingent on waiting for the acceptance of their applications for asylum. Whether people attain what they wait for or not, their subjectivities are formed through a certain idea of themselves, an understanding of their situation and their practices, all of which are located within histories and structures of power relations. My analysis draws on ethnographic data generated from fieldwork conducted in 2016–2017 among Oromo asylum seekers in the city of Nuremberg, Germany.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Gender, Sexualität und Religion (Schwerpunkt Afrika) Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Gender, Sexualität und Religion (Schwerpunkt Afrika) > Lehrstuhl Gender, Sexualität und Religion (Schwerpunkt Afrika) - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Serawit Debele Forschungseinrichtungen Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 960 Geschichte Afrikas |
| Eingestellt am: | 26 Okt 2026 13:36 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 27 Okt 2026 08:02 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/99768 |