1st Edition

Mobilities and Forced Migration

Edited By Nick Gill, Javier Caletrío, Victoria Mason Copyright 2014
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very little work, however, has addressed the fertile middle ground between mobilities and forced migration. This book sets out the ways in... Read more

1. Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration  2: Specters at the Port of Entry: Understanding State Mobilities through an Ontology of Exclusion  3: Reconsidering the Problem of ‘Bogus’ Refugees with ‘Socio-economic Motivations’ for Seeking Asylum  4: The Im/mobilities of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: Pan-Arabism, ‘Hospitality’ and the Figure of the ‘Refugee’  5 Confined Offline, Traversing Online Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet  6: Mobilising Images: Encounters of ‘Forced’ Migrants and the Bangladesh War of 1971  7: Governmentality in Motion: 25 Years of Ethiopia’s Experience of Famine and Migration Policy  8. Statelessness and Environmental-Induced Displacement: Future Scenarios of Deterritorialisation, Rescue and Recovery Examined

Biography

Nick Gill is senior lecturer in human geography, Exeter University, UK.

Javier Caletrío is a researcher based at the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Victoria Mason is lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.