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Journey without End
Migration from the Global South through the Americas
- 282 pages
- English
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About this book
Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"âAfrican 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 disasterâriddled 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 DariĂ©n Gapâthe 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 bottlenecksâQuito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's DariĂ©n Gap, and a Mexican border townâinto 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.
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 disasterâriddled 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 DariĂ©n Gapâthe 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 bottlenecksâQuito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's DariĂ©n Gap, and a Mexican border townâinto 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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Publisher
Vanderbilt University PressYear
2022Print ISBN
9780826504852, 9780826504869eBook ISBN
9780826504876Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Leaving Business
- 2. Entering the Americas: Into the Paws of the Coyotes
- 3. Quitoâs Little India
- 4. Self-Catering on the Ecuador-Colombia Border
- 5. Gulf of UrabĂĄ: The Two Faces of Paradise
- 6. The Darién: The Land of the Dead
- 7. Central America: Controlled Flow
- 8. The Waiting Cell of Tapachula
- 9. The Road Trip to End All Road Trips
- 10. âWelcome to Americaâ: Zero Tolerance in the Immigration Gulags
- Conclusion. Destination Liminal
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index