Lives in Transit
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Lives in Transit

Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey

  1. 267 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lives in Transit

Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey

About this book

Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged along transit routes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimagine transit as a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780520298545
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520970625

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Lives in Transit
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Circulations of Violence
  12. 2. The Arterial Border
  13. 3. The Migrant Industry
  14. 4. Embodied Mobilities
  15. 5. Intimate Crossings
  16. 6. (In)Security and Safety
  17. 7. Constellations of Care
  18. Conclusion: The Unforgotten
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index

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