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Viapolitics

Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion

William Walters editor Charles Heller editor Lorenzo Pezzani editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Duke University Press

Published:11th Feb '22

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Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge and struggle in migratory processes and offer a privileged vantage point from which to interrogate practices of mobility and systems of control in their deeper histories and wider geographic connections. This transdisciplinary group of scholars explores a set of empirically rich and diverse cases: from the Spanish and European authorities' attempts to control migrants' entire trajectories to infrastructures of escort of Indonesian labor migrants; from deportation train cars in the 1920s United States to contemporary stowaways at sea; from illegalized migrants walking across treacherous Alpine mountain passes to aerial geographies of deportation. Throughout, Viapolitics interrogates anew the phenomenon called “migration,” questioning how different forms of contentious mobility are experienced, policed, and contested.

Contributors. Ethan Blue, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Julie Y. Chu, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek, Clara Lecadet, Johan Lindquist, Renisa Mawani, Lorenzo Pezzani, Ranabir Samaddar, Amaha Senu, Martina Tazzioli, William Walters

“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *
“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *

ISBN: 9781478014287

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

320 pages