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Elif Lootens

Elif Lootens is a Belgian-Turkish writer and researcher. Her research concerns migration, borders, in particular the reproduction of colonial legacies and white ignorance in the academy. She obtained her Master’s degree in Migration and Diaspora studies at SOAS University of London. Currently she works at the Department of Sociology at Ghent University. 

Articles by Elif Lootens

‘Decolonisation is a constant struggle’: An Interview with Gloria Wekker 
Wekker reminds us that the struggle for decolonisation is never a short-term, technocratic, or superficial exercise; rather, it goes deeper, as a reckoning with the different ways in which four hundred years of colonialism continue to shape the present. 
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