Navigating the (Post)Colonial Pathways of Somali Migration to Scotland: Between the Edges of Empire

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
1 In Media Res
	Fauzia’s Story
	Continuity or Change?
		A View from Scotland
		A View From Somalia Through the Lens of Migration
	Navigating colonialities of citizenship and migration
		Between ‘colonial difference(s)’
	Triangulating the margins: Between the Edges of Empire
		Chapter Overview
	Some Notes on Navigating the Book
		The Coloniality of Research
		A Brief Note on Writing Choices
2 Applying a Critical Colonial Lens to Somali Migration to Scotland
	Colonial Power and South-North Migration
		Constructing Hierarchies of Humanity and Space
		Constructing Citizens and Migrants
	The Coloniality of Contemporary Migration Regimes
		Colonialities of Bordering and Citizenship
	A Decolonial Approach to the Coloniality of Migration?
		(De)Provincialising or (Dis)Entangling Migration?
	Evaluating a Critical Colonial Perspective on South-North Migration
3 The Colonial Foundations of Scottish-Somali Relations
	Edinburgh 1910: The ‘Somali Village’
	Somalia and the British Colonial Imaginary
		Colonialism in Somalia: 1887–1960
		Species of Colonial Power in Somalia
		Constructing the Somali Periphery Through Symbolic Violence
	The ‘Curious Case’ of Colonial Scotland
		The Colonial Nation ‘Without a State’
		(De)Constructing the Colonial Parochial
	Colonial Scots in the Colonial Somalilands
		Scottish Constructions of the Somali Other
	The Foundations of Relations
4 Ali Mohamed: ‘A Somali Man Living in Glasgow’, 1932
	Glasgow, 1932
	Contextualising Mohamed
	Governing Somali ‘Immigration’ to the Colonial ‘Centre’
		‘He Appears to be a Somali Seaman’: Administrating British Colonial Subjecthood
	Race-Making and the Modification of Protected Personhood Rights
		‘I was Under the Impression that in this Country at any Rate, Relief Could not be Refused’
	Migrantising Subjecthood
5 The Dysphoria of the Colonial ‘Centre’ and the Glasgow Bajuni Campaign
	Introduction
	The Glasgow Bajuni Campaign
	Continuity and Change
	The Universalisation of Colonial Difference by the Bordered Centre
		Reconceptualising the ‘Colonial Migrant’
	Out of Space and Time
	Colonial Dysphoria
6 New Scots, Old Tricks?
	Duniya
	(De)Constructing ‘Aspirational Pluralism’
		The Appeal and Frustrations of New Scots
		Refashioning Relations
	Navigating the Coloniality of the Governmental Assemblages of the (Non)State
		The Coloniality of Integration in the UK
		Policy Transfer in a (Post)Colonial, Multi-Governmental Landscape
	Contesting ‘New’ Scots?
		Migrantising Ethnicity
		No Time but the Present
	The Specificities of the ‘Here and Now’
7 Black, African; Muslim, Asian? Coloniality and the Racialisation of Somalis in Scotland
	‘But… We were Left Behind from the Start’
	The Racialisation of Somali ‘Southern Others’ in the Global North
		Black or Muslim?
		‘Whatever Derogatory Terms There Are, It’s Nothing to Do with Somalia’
	The Asianfication of Somalis in Glasgow
		Localising Racial Ascription
		‘They Have to Accept We’re Black, We’re from Africa’
	Doubled, Split and Tripled
8 The Possibilities of Indifference: (de)constructing Somali-Scottish identities and (re)positioning the ‘centre’
	Technologising ‘Clan’
	Clan in Migration
		‘That Reflects… That Doesn’t Reflect Here’: (De)Constructing Clan in Glasgow
		‘We Are Very Little in Scotland, We Want to Talk About Somalis Not About Clans’
	The Consequences of Indifference
		‘Unfortunately This is Equal to Everyone’
		The Consequences of ‘Negative Freedom’
		The Race-Making Possibilities of Somalinimo
	Repositioning the Centre
9 Beyond the Edges of Empire
	Postscript
References
Index