Lives in transit : violence and intimacy on the migrant journey
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Lives in transit : violence and intimacy on the migrant journey
(California series in public anthropology, 42)
University of California Press, c2018
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-240) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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