Copyright

Amisah Bakuri

Published On

2026-04-29

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

THEMA

  • JBFH
  • JHB
  • JHBA
  • JN
  • JBFA

BISAC

  • SOC007000
  • SOC026000
  • SOC026040
  • SOC008000
  • EDU015000

Keywords

  • migrant academics
  • academic precarity
  • academic mobility
  • autoethnography
  • postcolonial academia
  • global higher education

Resilience in Uncertainties Embracing and Celebrating Black Joy

Chapter of: From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

This chapter is a letter to my younger self, a reflection on the challenges of being a Black migrant academic: visa struggles, language barriers, and alienation. I explore resilience as an affective, embodied, and collective practice, deeply rooted in Black Joy. Beyond mere survival, resilience and Black Joy affirm life, community, beauty, and presence in spaces that challenge one’s sense of belonging.

Contributors

Amisah Bakuri

(author)
Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2386-2995

Amisah Bakuri (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Theology and Religion at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As an anthropologist, she engages in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of religion, culture, identity, and sexuality. Her current work examines the historical legacies of missionary Christianity, colonialism, and slavery, exploring their impact on the religious identities of descendants of enslaved and colonised persons and communities in the Netherlands.