Contradictory Mobilities and Cultural Projects of Afropolitanism African Immigrant Nurses in Vancouver, Canada
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https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica65220232624Mots-clés :
Infirmières immigrées noires africaines, Afropolitanisme, projets culturels et pratiques de création des classes, mobilités contradictoires, classe sociale, raceRésumé
J’explore la relation entre la classe sociale et la race en examinant la manière dont les infirmières noires adoptent des pratiques culturelles afropolitaines pour négocier des mobilités de classe contradictoires à Vancouver. Bien que cet article s’inspire, selon une approche réflexive, des expériences vécues par ma famille pour commencer à envisager les nuances de l’afropolitanisme, j’affine la discussion en me référant aux pratiques de création de classe des infirmières d’origine africaine. Les infirmières canalisent les projets de création de classes afropolitaines, à partir desquels elles développent une flexibilité et une ouverture d’esprit qui leur permettent de rejeter le rôle de victime lors de leurs mobilités contradictoires. L’afropolitanisme se réfère à « une politique d’inclusion expansive qui cherche à positionner les acteurs comme faisant partie d’une communauté transnationale d’Africains du monde » (Adjepong 2021, 1), pour « conférer une valeur à l’africanité » (Ibid., 137). En combinant la littérature sur le racisme antiNoir dans les soins infirmiers et les études sur les relations entre la classe sociale, la race et la culture, cet article met en évidence les possibilités et les obstacles de l’afropolitanisme, en explorant la façon dont les infirmières immigrantes africaines, qui font partie d’une classe moyenne noire canadienne en plein essor, sont aux prises avec une mobilité contradictoire sur le terrain racialisé du Canada. Il contribue aux discussions sur la classe moyenne noire, dans le contexte d’une « relative nouveauté des classes moyennes noires » (Rollock et al. 2012, 253).
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