Lives in Transit

Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29855-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 272 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged along transit routes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimagine transit as a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vogt, Wendy A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
1. Circulations of Violence
2. The Arterial Border
3. The Migrant Industry
4. Embodied Mobilities
5. Intimate Crossings
6. (In)Security and Safety
7. Constellations of Care
Conclusion: The Unforgotten

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy A. Vogt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis.