Now available

Pub Date: April 9, 2024

9781649033178

Hardcover with printed dust jacket

300 pages

Series: Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East

17 b&w illus.

9 in H | 6 in W | 0.3 in T

$70.00 USD, $90.99 CAD, £60.00 GBP

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

"This excellent book, while precise and concrete, provides a broad view of the diversity and multiplicity of border processes and migration policies in the global south while dealing with different populations in multiple countries on several continents." —Françoise Lestage, Université Paris Cité


"This volume offers an original contribution to understanding mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration in the global South and captures well the complex diversity and dynamics of migrants’ active aspirations, desires and efforts towards ‘making routes,’ even in the face of robust attempts to curtail these movements." —Sujata Ramachandran, Balsillie School of International Relations

Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East Series


This series explores new research on ‘refugees and migrants’ within the Middle East and North Africa, drawing largely from Anthropology, History, Geography, Sociology, and Political Science. ‘Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East’ seeks to present some of the most innovative work on displacement and mobility coming out of Middle Eastern studies. It targets work on the legacies of migration on the region, the agency and humanity of refugees, and their resistance to silencing. Both migrants and refugees navigate the fraught spaces between legal regimes, operating in liminal spaces as ‘guests’ or exiles in contexts of statelessness, and securitization of borders. This series aims to reclaim their agency through examinations of, among other topics, livelihoods; advocacy; cultural production; social movements; and resilience and resistance. Together, the titles in this series offer vital understanding to the complex role that mobility plays in the Middle East.

More on the series.

Making Routes:

Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South

Edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García

A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South


By the end of 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 100 million, the highest figure since the Second World War. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Taliban political takeover in Afghanistan exacerbated an already protracted global refugee situation, but climate-related events also played a part in forcing millions of people to leave their homes in search of more habitable living areas.


Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migrant in the Global South provides fresh understandings of mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration across the Global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Moving away from North–South, East–West binaries and challenging the conception that migratory movements are primarily unidirectional—from South to North—it explores how state policies, migrants’ trajectories, nationalism and discrimination, and art and knowledge production unfold in places as widespread as Egypt, Turkey, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Haiti.


Seventeen academics, activists, and artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and international relations reveal the diverse narratives, migration patterns, forms of agency, and laws that make up the complex reality of South–South migration, offering vital new pathways for research in migration studies today.

Read an excerpt.

About the author(s)

Gerda Heck is assistant professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology, Egyptology, and Anthropology, and at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.

Eda Sevinin is an independent researcher. She received her PhD in 2022 from Central European University, Department of International Relations.

Elena Habersky is a research manager at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.

Ibrahim Awad is director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo.

Carlos Sandoval-García is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica.



Contributors:


-Chowdhury R. Abrar, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), Dhaka, Bangladesh

-David Bolanos, Independent photographer, Costa Rica

-Danyel M. Ferrari, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States

-Leander Kandilige, University of Ghana, Accra

-Mélanie V. Léger-Montinard, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

-Duduzile S. Ndlovu, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

-Evrim Hikmet Öğüt, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey

-Sara Sadek, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

-Tasneem Siddiqui, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

-Sally Souraya, Independent artist, London United Kingdom

-Allison B. Wolf, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

-Kudakwashe Vanyoro, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

-Thomas Yeboah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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