Based on fourteen months of ethnographic research, Chakkour examines how Egyptian migrants make a life in postcolonial Paris. Convening the many ways in which Paris is lived as a postcolony, she analyzes the poetics and politics of differentiated belonging, postcolonial relationalities, bureaucratic resilience, parenting dilemmas and migrant futures. By centering the repertoires, ways of life, everyday references and frames of Egyptians in Paris, this research provides a crucial relational phenomenological understanding of postcolonial belonging in Europe.

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