Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran

Journey without End (eBook, ePUB)

Migration from the Global South through the Americas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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 racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826504876
• Artikelnr.: 65888005

Autorenporträt

Andrew Nelson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas.

Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones Newswires and the Dallas Morning News.