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Book Review: Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal by Moitt Bernard Moitt, Bernard. 2023. Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 223 pp. $110.00 (Hardcover). ISBN 9781009296472.

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Clé publique

doi:10.1177/03631990241308980

Auteurs

SE Duff

Année déclarée

2024

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

book-review

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.865217+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.865217+00:00

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Non effectuée

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Colby College

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US

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Jamaica as an eight-year-old in 1964.The stories constructed by Nightingale's interviews also involve a recollection of a return to the homeland, where this was possible, evoking the feelings which this caused.The volume is a harrowing, traumatic, moving, and emotional read.Nightingale points to the break-up of family units for a variety of reasons which make the lives of the children more difficult, sometimes the cause of the emigration and sometimes the result of the movement.She also asks us to think about the lack of agency which the children had in their moves, some of whom resented this.However, as Nightingale points out, the narratives also bring out human resilience.The interviewees go on to have successful careers, or at least careers similar to those of native-born Londoners, while others get married, in some cases just once, in other cases having several partners, as well as children.Sometimes they marry within their own ethnic group, as in the case of Argun, but most do not because of the way in which friendships and relationships have evolved in London from the end of the twentieth century.Nightingale has produced a deeply moving, tear-jerking, and rewarding volume, which puts childhood experiences, often ignored in the history of migration, at center stage.Most importantly the voices of former child migrants come through.In the conclusion to this book (published in 2023), Nightingale looked forward to a time when the most brutal legislation inhibiting family reunification, introduced at the end of the long tenure of the far-right, xenophobic, Conservative regime, might face repeal.This remains to be fully seen.As this volume demonstrates and as Nightingale stresses, multicultural Britain has evolved because migrants have asserted themselves in the country with help from ordinary white Britons who accept ethnic difference, perhaps the silent majority, although, equally, Nightingale has demonstrated the way in which increasingly tight asylum laws have forced people on to boats.The volume therefore operates on a series of levels: as a collection of life histories; as an autobiography of Nightingale's involvement in anti-racism, perhaps with its origins in her Irish heritage; and as a story of racism and multiculturalism in Britain and especially London.It weaves all of these themes together.While it has numerous strengths and some weaknesses, it should act as a starting point for those interested in child migration to Britain and beyond.

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OPENALEX

W4405763022

DOI

10.1177/03631990241308980

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book-review

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990241308980
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4405763022

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