Liquid Borders: Migration as Resistance

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Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years. In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures, and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world. Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies. Contents List of figures List of contributors Introduction • Mabel Moraña Part I: Migration, (trans)borders, and the freedom of movement 1 Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration: Rethinking freedom of movement • Sandro Mezzadra 2 Fugitivos de la Vida imposible: Transborders, migrations, and displacements • José Manuel Valenzuela Arce Part II: Labor, politics, and the question of limits 3 Transmigrants as embodiment of biocapitalism • Abril Trigo 4 Refuge and deportation: The future as property in the border regime • Angela Naimou 5 At the border of sight: States, the civil contract, and Bracero Program photos • Deborah Cohen 6 Barbed wire: A history of cruelty • Tabea Linhard Part III: Gender, art, memory, and the migrant 7 Mobile reorientations: Trans-agency and the queering of the Italian politics of migrant reception in Henrique Goldman’s Princesa • Elena Dalla Torre 8 Resilience beyond cruelty: Central American migrants pursuing the American dream • Ana Del Sarto 9 Border art for a border ecology • Ila Nicole Sheren 10 States of exile: Kracauer’s extraterritoriality, and the poetics of memory in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Estado de exilio (2003) • Ignacio Infante Part IV: Colonial crossings/indigenous displacements 11 Early modern religious displacement and transnational Catholic subjects • Stephanie Kirk 12 Andean and Amazonian displacements: Culture and the effects of deforestation • José Antonio Mazzotti 13 Language of space: Politics of indigenous people removal and the ethnopolitics of resistance: The post-colonial diaspora • Stefano Varese 14 From genocide to Hieleras: The never-ending Maya genocide • Arturo Arias Part V: Translocalities in Latin America 15 Bordering the crisis: Race, migration, and political strategies in anti-populist Ecuador • Jorge Daniel Vásquez 16 From the “suffering stranger” to the IDP: The emergence of a new problem area • Juan Ricardo Aparicio 17 Dispossession by militarization: Forced displacements and the neoliberal “Drug War” for energy in Mexico • Oswaldo Zavala 18 Migration and the aging body: Elderly war refugees in Brazil between national borders and social boundaries • Bahia M. Munem Part VI: Global migration/Mediterranean crossings 19 Caribbean borderlands and traveling theories: Imperial frontier, translocal nations, federation of diasporas, planetary archipelago • Agustín Laó-Montes 20 Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean • Manuela Boatcă 21 Visualizing the Black Mediterranean • Michelle Murray 22 “On behalf of vulnerable strangers”: Interpreting communities-to-come • Mina Karavanta Index