Name: Journey Without End: Migration From the Global South Through the Americas
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Author: Nelson, Andrew ; Curran, Rob
ISBN: 9780826504869

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Journey Without End: Migration From the Global South Through the Americas

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rob

Andrew Nelson

Publisher

Vanderbilt University Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.55 kg.

ISBN13

9780826504869

Synopsis "Journey Without End: Migration From the Global South Through the Americas"

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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