Lives in Transit (e-bog) af Vogt, Wendy A.
Vogt, Wendy A.

Lives in Transit e-bog

288,10 DKK
LivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. S…
LivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.
E-bog 288,10 DKK
Forfattere Vogt, Wendy A. (forfatter)
Udgivet 13.11.2018
Længde 272 sider
Genrer 1KL
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780520970625

LivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.