ABSTRACT
This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research.
Drawn from a range of disciplines and methodologies, this anthology links disparate theories, approaches, and geographical foci to better understand the spectrum of the migratory experience from the viewpoint of migrants themselves. The book explores the causes and consequences of human displacement at different scales (both individual and community-level) and across different time points (from antiquity to the present) and geographies (not just the Global North but also the Global South). Transnational scholars across a range of knowledge cultures advance a broader global discourse on mobility and migration that centres on the direct experiences and narratives of migrants themselves.
Both interdisciplinary and accessible, this book will be useful for scholars and students in Migration Studies, Global Studies, Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|37 pages
Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power
part I|67 pages
Regimes of belonging
chapter 5|14 pages
Lives on the move
part II|76 pages
Drivers of displacement
chapter 6|14 pages
War and forced migration in medieval Iberia (1085–1266)
part III|70 pages
Re-creating home away from home
chapter 11|14 pages
Uprooted: living between two worlds—German postwar refugee
chapter 15|15 pages
“This is about making family”
part IV|62 pages
Gender, sexuality, age, and belonging
chapter 16|16 pages
“I am not alone”
chapter 19|17 pages
Navigating the regime of illegality
part V|16 pages
Challenges to migration research