Overview
Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people. Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the activity in three of the nearly 100 shelters along a unique humanitarian trail that many Central Americans take to reach the United States. She outlines the constraints faced by these sites and their potential to create social transformation and considers how and why migration security is currently framed and managed as both a criminal and humanitarian issue. Shelter on the Journey explores the politics of the shelters, their social world, and the dynamics of charity and solidarity, as well as the need for humanitarian assistance and advocacy for dignified and free transit migration.
Full Product Details
Author: Priscilla Solano ,
Douglas Massey
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781439921531
ISBN 10: 1439921539
Pages: 219
Publication Date: 26 April 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Shelter on the Journey captures the contradictions of humanitarian projects with subtlety and humanity. Through a focus on migrant shelters, Solano offers a novel perspective on the complex relationship between humanitarian work and activism, with persistent attention on the broader systems that consistently criminalize migrants. An excellent contribution to migration studies, humanitarian and charity scholarship, and beyond.""--Cecilia Menjivar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and coauthor of Immigrant Families ""On their perilous journey north to the United States, migrants find dozens of welcoming shelters that provide temporary safety and comfort. Priscilla Solano's ethnography offers a poignant and compelling picture of this humanitarian resistance to the growing global divide and the political violence of borders.""--Didier Fassin, author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
Author Information
Priscilla Solano is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lund University in Sweden.
