Liberation

This book addresses the intricate relationships between mobility, identity, and power structures, focusing on how these dynamics are shaped by omnicolonialism and challenged through communal and digital practices.

The core of this manuscript lies in challenging the European dominant narrative that frame migration as a crisis and racialized individuals as threats, arguing instead in favour of translocal networks of belonging and collective emotional, sensory and epistemic intelligence. The book explores the specific case of high-skilled racialized migrants in Finland – a country that ranked the happiest in the world for seven years in a row. It underscores how the omnicolonial matrix seeks to alienate migrants from their heritages, forcing them into oppressive categories of economic utility and racialized stereotypes hindering their growth. However as shown throughout this manuscript, marginalized individuals challenge the system by enacting sites of resistance and belonging that defy the capitalist logics of commodification and exploitation.

Drawing on anticolonial theoretical, historical, methodological and empirical resources, this manuscript presents an innovative framework, Critical Phenomenology of Interaction, to analyze how oppressed individuals, in fragmented European nation-states, both experience and resist the omnicolonial matrix in their (digitally artefacted) everyday social interactions.