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Published December 2014 Atlantic Automobilism
Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940
Mom, G.
Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present “car society.”
Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Transport Studies
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Published May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia
Mühlfried, F.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published May 2018
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Lems, A.
By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published September 2014
Belonging in Oceania
Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
Hermann, E., Kempf, W. & Meijl, T. van (eds)
Belonging can be understood by considering the intersections of movement, place-making and cultural identifications. The contributions present ethnographic case studies of such intersections in Oceania. Investigated are ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, as well as with internal and international migration.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)
The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2013
Border Encounters
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published June 2020
Borders across Healthcare
Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe
Sahraoui, N. (ed)
Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space
Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Reed-Danahay, D.
French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology
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Published July 2010
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Lem, W. & Gardiner Barber, P. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2007
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Wulff, H.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published February 2007
Driving Germany
The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970
Zeller, T.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Driving Modernity
Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922-1943
Moraglio, M.
Driving Modernity recounts the history of the first Italian motorway, which—alongside railways and aviation—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Transport Studies
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Published August 2019
Escapees
The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
von Fransecky, T.
Hundreds of Jewish men, women and children escaped from deportation trains bound for extermination camps by making a dangerous leap from the moving train. Drawing from extensive interviews and new sources, Tanja Fransecky sheds light on a hitherto neglected chapter of Jewish resistance to the National Socialist extermination policy.
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Published July 2017
European Regions and Boundaries
A Conceptual History
Mishkova, D. & Trencsényi, B. (eds)
References to regional differences remain central to cultural and political discourse all over the European continent. This collection presents a synoptic view of these regional concepts together with the historical and disciplinary contexts where they had emerged by bringing together prominent European and US scholars from multiple disciplines to explore how regionalization has been conceptualized throughout European history.
Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies
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Published May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. Based on a trajectory ethnography, this book discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published March 2023
Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
Technology, Aesthetics and Gender
Jderu, G.
Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2017
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Tournès, L. & Scott-Smith, G. (eds)
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, yet formal exchange programs did not exist until the 20th century. The essays in Global Exchanges examine the most important scholarship programs, exploring the essential contributions of organized exchange.
Subjects: Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present Educational Studies
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Published August 2020
Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980
Mom, G.
Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies
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Published May 2007
Going First Class?
New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
Amit, V. (ed)
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Tanu, D.
Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published August 2018
Healthcare in Motion
Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access
Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)
Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and examining the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals. It considers how the need for health services engenders particular (im)mobility forms, and how mobility is experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Medical Anthropology
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Published February 2020
If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink
Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu
Petrou, K.
Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published May 2018
Intimate Mobilities
Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)
This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2016
Keywords of Mobility
Critical Engagements
Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)
Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published January 2021
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2012
Learning From the Children
Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies
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Published April 2021
Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published November 2020
The Long Journey
Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
Di Bella, M. P. & Yothers, B. (eds)
Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published May 2017
Methodologies of Mobility
Ethnography and Experiment
Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published November 2007
Migration Without Borders
Essays on the Free Movement of People
Pécoud, A. & Guchteneire, P. de (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published September 2016
Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000
Coy, J., Poley, J., & Schunka, A. (eds)
The essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. These diverse contributions identify important commonalities between eras and contextualize Germany within broader migration histories.
Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2009
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Alexiades, M. N. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2020
The Mobility of Memory
Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders
Passerini, L., Trakilović, M., & Proglio, G. (eds)
During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond” (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Memory Studies
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Published July 2018
Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Salazar, N. B.
Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published September 2016
Moving Places
Relations, Return and Belonging
Gregorič Bon, N. & Repič, J. (eds)
Centering on “moving places” – places with locations that are not fixed, but relative – this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2012
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Svašek, M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology
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Published March 2022
A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Pellow, D.
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Published September 2022
Pacific Automobilism
Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015
Mom, G.
In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies
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Published June 2020
Pacing Mobilities
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume looks at the means of mobility in twenty-first century movement. Through a focus on pacing and pace, this volume looks at how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2023
Performing Memory
Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968
Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)
Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Mobility Studies
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Published April 2020
Permeable Borders
History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States
Otto, P. & Berthier-Foglar, S. (eds)
This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.
Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published October 2024
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies
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Resituating Crisis
Silencing and Voicing Crisis in Everyday Life
Andersen, D. J. & Aubry, L. (eds)
Crisis is not just a situation twisting normality but can become constitutive of normality itself. In exploring transformative and constructive elements to being in crisis, it resituates crisis in everyday life to foster critical and nuanced examination of discourses on and experiences of it.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies
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Published November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Ethnographic Approaches
Noret, J. (ed)
Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published March 2020
Space, Place and Identity
Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century
Köhler, F.
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published December 2018
Transforming Study Abroad
A Handbook
Doerr, N. M.
Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Educational Studies Mobility Studies
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Published October 2021
Transnational Railway Cultures
Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art
Fraser, B. & Spalding, S. (eds)
Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2018
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)
This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published June 2018
Travelling with the Argonauts
Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
Irek, M.
Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies
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Published February 2020
A U-Turn to the Future
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850
Emanuel, M., Schipper. F., & Oldenziel, R. (eds)
Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable urban mobility now and in the future by tapping into our knowledge of the historical trajectories leading up to the features of modern mobility in cities today.
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Published December 2024
(Un)Settling Place
Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move
Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)
An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2007
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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