Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power

by Tamar Mayer (Editor), Trinh Tran (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367772949
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.

Trinh Tran is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Education Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power: challenging paradigms in migration studies Part I Regimes of belonging Chapter 2 Out of place in antiquity Chapter 3 Reimagining "refugee" protection: beyond improving the status quo Chapter 4 Governance of migration in South Asia: the need for a decolonial approach Chapter 5 Lives on the move: experiences of exclusion, vulnerability, and resilience of Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru Part II Drivers of displacement Chapter 6 War and forced migration in medieval Iberia (1085–1266): between Al-Andalus and the feudal world Chapter 7 Migration and modern slavery: perspectives in Africa to Europe migration Chapter 8 The anxious integration of former enclave and "new" citizens in North Bengal, India Chapter 9 Climate and non-climate stressors, internal migration, and belonging in Ghana Chapter 10 Henancun in Beijing, a parallel society in the making Part III Re-creating home away from home Chapter 11 Uprooted: living between two worlds—German postwar refugee: narratives on displacement and exile Chapter 12 Palestine in exile: blurring the boundaries and re-creating the homeland Chapter 13 Displacement, diaspora, and statelessness: framing the Kurdish case Chapter 14 What makes a place a home?: Syrian refugees’ narratives on belonging in Turkey Chapter 15 "This is about making family": creating communities of belonging in schools serving refugee-background students Part IV Gender, sexuality, age and belonging Chapter 16 "I am not alone": Rohingya women negotiating home and belonging in Bangladesh’s refugee camps Chapter 17 Journeys of belonging: Latina migrant lesbians in Long Beach, California Chapter 18 The welfare state and women's citizenship in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen Chapter 19 Navigating the regime of illegality: experiences of migration and racialization among 1.5-generation Mexican migrant women Part V Challenges to migration research Chapter 20 Refusal and migration research: new possibilities for feminist social science