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Viapolitics : borders, migration, and the power of locomotion /

"Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Walters, William, 1964- (Editor), Heller, Charles, 1981- (Editor), Pezzani, Lorenzo, 1982- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Capillary power, rail vessels, and the carceral viapolitics of early twentieth-century American deportation / Ethan Blue
  • From migrants to revolutionaries : reflections on the Komagata Maru's 1914 "middle passage" / Renisa Mawani
  • Stowing away via the cargo ship : tracing governance, rival knowledges, and violence en route / Amaha Senu
  • Boxed in : human cargo and the technics of comfort / Julie Chu
  • Infrastructures of escort : transnational migration, viapolitics, and cultures of connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist
  • Routes thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias
  • Historicizing the Balkan route : governing migration through mobility /
  • Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek
  • The other boats : the shifting operations of state and nonstate vessels at the EU's maritime frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani
  • When the "via" is fragmented and disrupted : migrants' walking along the alpine route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli
  • Deportation and airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters
  • Afterword: For the migrant, the way is the life / Ranabir Samaddar.