Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion

William Walters|Charles Heller|Lorenzo Pezzani

ISBN 10: 1478014288 / ISBN 13: 9781478014287

Editore: Duke University Press, 2022

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The contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to trea. Codice articolo 441354193

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Titolo: Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the ...

Casa editrice: Duke University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2022

Legatura: Kartoniert / Broschiert

Condizione: New

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Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge and struggle in migratory processes and offer a privileged vantage point from which to interrogate practices of mobility and systems of control in their deeper histories and wider geographic connections. This transdisciplinary group of scholars explores a set of empirically rich and diverse cases: from the Spanish and European authorities' attempts to control migrants' entire trajectories to infrastructures of escort of Indonesian labor migrants; from deportation train cars in the 1920s United States to contemporary stowaways at sea; from illegalized migrants walking across treacherous Alpine mountain passes to aerial geographies of deportation. Throughout, Viapolitics interrogates anew the phenomenon called “migration,” questioning how different forms of contentious mobility are experienced, policed, and contested.

Contributors. Ethan Blue, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Julie Y. Chu, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek, Clara Lecadet, Johan Lindquist, Renisa Mawani, Lorenzo Pezzani, Ranabir Samaddar, Amaha Senu, Martina Tazzioli, William Walters

Informazioni sull?autore:

William Walters is Professor of Political Sociology at Carleton University.

Charles Heller is Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Lorenzo Pezzani is Lecturer in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.