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Copyright

Atamhi Cawayu

Published On

2023-05-11

Page Range

pp. 191–200

Language

  • English

Print Length

10 pages

19. A Letter to Future Adoptee Researchers

On Being a Researcher of Color in Belgium

Chapter of: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe(pp. 191–200)
In this chapter, I use autoethnographic method to illustrate my live experiences as a researcher of colour in Belgium who is committed to anti-racism in majority-white academic spaces. The chapter reflects on the challenges of BIPOC academics to shift the academy towards an anti-racist space.

Contributors

Atamhi Cawayu

(author)
PhD fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at Ghent University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9074-0461