ABSTRACT
Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years.
In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures, and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world.
Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|26 pages
Migration, (trans)borders, and the freedom of movement
chapter 1|10 pages
Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration
part II|56 pages
Labor, politics, and the question of limits
part III|46 pages
Gender, art, memory, and the migrant
chapter 7|8 pages
Mobile reorientations
chapter 10|12 pages
States of exile
part IV|54 pages
Colonial crossings/indigenous displacements
chapter 13|14 pages
Language of space
part V|58 pages
Translocalities in Latin America
chapter 15|13 pages
Bordering the crisis
chapter 17|16 pages
Dispossession by militarization
chapter 18|15 pages
Migration and the aging body
part VI|60 pages
Global migration/Mediterranean crossings