Affiliation:
1. a) Researcher ‘Observatoire du sida et des sexualités’ Saint-Louis University, Brussels, Belgium charlotte.pezeril@yahoo.fr b) Présidente Association Libiki, Brussels, Belgium dkanyeba@yahoo.fr
Abstract
Abstract
Based on collaborative research between a Congolese activist in HIV prevention in Belgium and a French anthropologist, this paper hopes to initiate a debate about the issue of HIV /AIDS in light of the postcolonial links between Belgium and its former colony Congo/Zaire. By exploring the social representations that HIV has generated in Francophone Belgium and the changing political management of the epidemic since the 1980s, the paper focuses on how Congolese HIV-positive migrants have been viewed, treated and allowed (or not) to settle in Belgium. It analyzes how the HIV/AIDS epidemic was seen as an ‘African disease,’ and more precisely a ‘Congolese virus.’ It concludes that Achille Mbembe’s ‘postcolonial scoriae’ must be taken into account (without necessarily implying a linear passage from colonial to postcolonial relations) in order to understand European and international policies in Africa or policies concerning African migrants.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,History,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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