Lives in Transit : Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey EPUB
by Wendy A. Vogt
Part of the California Series in Public Anthropology series
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LivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough 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, andlivesbecome 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 alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.
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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:13/11/2018
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- ISBN:9780520970625
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- Pages:272 pages
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