1st Edition
Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power
This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research.
Drawn from a range of disciplines and methodologies, this anthology links disparate theories, approaches, and geographical foci to better understand the spectrum of the migratory experience from the viewpoint of migrants themselves. The book explores the causes and consequences of human displacement at different scales (both individual and community-level) and across different time points (from antiquity to the present) and geographies (not just the Global North but also the Global South). Transnational scholars across a range of knowledge cultures advance a broader global discourse on mobility and migration that centres on the direct experiences and narratives of migrants themselves.
Both interdisciplinary and accessible, this book will be useful for scholars and students in Migration Studies, Global Studies, Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology.
Chapter 1 Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power: challenging paradigms in migration studies
Tamar Mayer and Trinh Tran
Part I Regimes of belonging
Chapter 2 Out of place in antiquity
Elena Isayev
Chapter 3 Reimagining "refugee" protection: beyond improving the status quo
Jennifer Hyndman
Chapter 4 Governance of migration in South Asia: the need for a decolonial approach
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
Chapter 5 Lives on the move: experiences of exclusion, vulnerability, and resilience of Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru
Luisa Feline Freier and Andrea Kvietok
Part II Drivers of displacement
Chapter 6 War and forced migration in medieval Iberia (1085–1266): between Al-Andalus and the feudal world
J. Santiago Palacios
Chapter 7 Migration and modern slavery: perspectives in Africa to Europe migration
Olayinka Akanle
Chapter 8 The anxious integration of former enclave or "new" citizens in North Bengal, India
Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil
Chapter 9 Climate and non-climate stressors, internal migration, and belonging in Ghana
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong and Dinko Haanaan Dinko
Chapter 10 Henancun in Beijing, a parallel society in the making
Jia Feng and Guo Chen
Part III Re-creating home away from home
Chapter 11 Uprooted: living between two worlds—German postwar refugee: narratives on displacement and exile
Andreas Kossert and Tamar Mayer
Chapter 12 Palestine in exile: blurring the boundaries and re-creating the homeland
Anne Irfan
Chapter 13 Displacement, diaspora, and statelessness: framing the Kurdish case
Naif Bezwan and Janroj Yilmaz Keles
Chapter 14 What makes a place a home?: Syrian refugees’ narratives on belonging in Turkey
Doğuş Şimşek
Chapter 15 "This is about making family": creating communities of belonging in schools serving refugee-background students
Shawna Shapiro
Part IV Gender, sexuality, age, and belonging
Chapter 16 "I Am Not Alone": Rohingya women negotiating home and belonging in Bangladesh’s refugee camps
Farhana Rahman and Nafay Choudhury
Chapter 17 Journeys of belonging: Latina migrant lesbians in Long Beach, California
Sandibel Borges
Chapter 18 The welfare state and affective citizenship in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen
Ben Suzuki Graves
Chapter 19 Navigating the regime of illegality: experiences of migration and racialization among 1.5-generation Mexican migrant women
Heidy Sarabia, Laura Zaragoza, and Alejandra Aguilar
Part V Challenges to migration research
Chapter 20 Refusal and migration research: New possibilities for feminist social science
Emily Mitchell-Eaton and Kate Coddington
Biography
Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.
Trinh Tran is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Education Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.
