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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 Missing Information?
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