1st Edition

Crossing Borders

Edited By Mimi Sheller, Kevin Hannam Copyright 2018
170 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating. The contributors offer nuanced understandings of the politics of mobility across various kinds of borders and forms of cultural circulation, showing how people experience and practice crossing many different borders. Several chapters... Read more

1. Learning Mobility Challenging Borders: Cross-border Experiences of eastern European Immigrants in Spain Silvia Marcu

2. Polish Graduates and British Citizenship: Amplification of the Potential Mobility Dynamics beyond Europe Aga Szewczyk

3. Mobile Neighbouring Soile Veijola and Petra Falin

4. Mobility Justice in the Context of Disaster Nancy Cook and David Butz

5. The Institutionalization of Mobility: Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods Philipp Schrӧder and Manja Stephan-Emmrich

6. Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move Paolo Boccagni, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Peggy Levitt

7. Survival Mobilities: Tactics, Legality and Mobility of Undocumented Borderland Citizens in India and Bangladesh Hosna J. Shewly

Biography

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research & Policy at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She is President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility and founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities. Her books include Aluminum Dreams; Citizenship from Below; Consuming the Caribbean; The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities; Mobility and Locative Media; Tourism Mobilities; and Mobile Technologies of the City. 

Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Mobilities at Edinburgh Napier University, UK and research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a founding co-editor of the journals Mobilities and Applied Mobilities (Routledge); co-author of Understanding Tourism (Sage) and Tourism and India (Routledge); and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, Moral Encounters in Tourism (Ashgate) and Event Mobilities (Routledge).