Journey without End

Migration from the Global South through the Americas
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0486-9
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales—African 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 disaster–riddled 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 DariÉn Gap—the 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 as mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito’s tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama’s DariÉn Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with race, gender, and class exploitation. Even then, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction
- 1. The Leaving Business
- 2. Entering the Americas: Into the Paws of the Coyotes
- 3. Quito’s Little India
- 4. Self-Catering on the Ecuador-Colombia Border
- 5. Gulf of UrabÁ: 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. “Welcome to America”: Zero Tolerance in the Immigration Gulag
- Conclusion: Destination Liminal
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

Andrew Nelson is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas.