Overview

People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. (Un)Settling Place recentralizes these “out-of-the-way” places as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the re-claiming of space, this collection volume seeks to show how a critical approach to in-between place-making can challenge the idea of place as fixed, singular, or one-directional, offering new ways of understanding migrant trajectories.

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Author:   Nanneke Winters ,  Heike Drotbohm ,  Yaatsil Guevara González
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805398103

ISBN 10:   1805398105
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Unsettling Place along and out of the Way—An Introduction Heike Drotbohm and Nanneke Winters Chapter 1. Etched into Place: Communities of Knowledge, Memory, and History Making along Migrant Trajectories Wendy A. Vogt Chapter 2. Emplacing Arrivals: The Infrastructural Accommodation of Migratory Difference in Urban West Africa Michael Stasik Chapter 3. Gym Mobilities: Shaping Bodies and Lifting Community at the Edges of San Salvador Noelle Brigden Chapter 4. A Place in the Making: Sheltering Unaccompanied Minors and the Limits of a “Safe Haven” Friederike Eichner Chapter 5. Strategic Placemaking in US Immigration Courts: The Role of Migration Attorneys, Expert Witnesses and Place Narratives in Asylum Cases Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera Chapter 6. Hesitant Place-Making: Dwellings and Avoidances in a Popular Mall in Argentina Franziska Reiffen Chapter 7. Survival and Deferred Place-Making at Sea: Onboard Socialities of Vietnamese and Rohingya Boatpeople Antje Missbach and Gerhard Hoffstaedter Chapter 8. Place Acrobatics: Re-Envisioning Mobility-Place Relations along Migrant Trajectories Joris Schapendonk and Tine Davids Chapter 9. The Political Ecology of Displaced Placemaking Georgina Ramsay Afterword: About Etchings, Place Acrobatics and Spatial Fixes—Rethinking the Relationship between Place, Marginality and Mobility Annika Lems Index

Reviews

“This volume breaks from the usual. Winters, Drotbohm, and Guevara González have assembled an excellent collection of cutting-edge contributions that cast new light on the meanings of place and place-making. With rich insights, the collection reveals how people on the move transform the “out-of-the-way places” they traverse in their journeys, even if when they stay only temporarily. The book offers much-needed clarity and insight into the multiple dimensions of (im)mobility that is sure to inspire future research. Highly recommended!” • Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles

Author Information

Nanneke Winters is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, which is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Population, Space and Place, International Migration Review, and the Journal of Latin American Studies. Before joining ISS, she held research positions in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University.

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