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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/19687| Title: | "We are going to fix your vagina, just the way we like it." Some reflections on the construction of [Sub-Suharan] African female asylum seekers in Malta and their efforts to speak back |
| Authors: | Pisani, Maria |
| Keywords: | Mediterranean Region -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects Women immigrants -- Social conditions Female circumcision -- Africa Malta -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Postcolonial Directions in Education |
| Citation: | Pisani, Maria (2013). "We are going to fix your vagina, just the way we like it." Some reflections on the construction of [Sub-Suharan] African female asylum seekers in Malta and their efforts to speak back. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 2(1), 68-99. |
| Abstract: | This paper will draw attention to the way by which social relations structure knowledge to privilege particular ways of knowing and silences and subjugates others, namely that of asylum seekers. It is intended to illustrate how such epistemic violence, to echo Spivak, can result in surgical interventions that violate the rights, and dignity, of female asylum seekers, and reproduce the docile body. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19687 |
| ISSN: | 2304-5388 |
| Appears in Collections: | PDE, Volume 2, No. 1 PDE, Volume 2, No. 1 Scholarly Works - FacSoWYCS |
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