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Title: Journey without End
Condition: New
Subtitle: Migration from the Global South through the Americas
EAN: 9780826504852
ISBN: 9780826504852
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 30/11/2022
Description: Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.

The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the DariÉn Gap—the gateway from South to Central America.

Journey without End follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality as mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito’s tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama’s DariÉn Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with race, gender, and class exploitation. Even then, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Science Nature & Math
Item Weight: 162g
Item Width: 14mm
Release Year: 2022

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