Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile

Reviews / Votes

"At long last! We finally have a scholarly volume of work that critically and efficaciously examines the multiple crossovers between tourism, migration and exile. This remarkable collection of chapters provides an endless buffet of theoretically rich and empirically inspiring insights into diverse human mobilities and their implications for tourism. Crucial concepts, including migration, belonging, identity, existential fluidity, imaginaries, exclusion and inclusion, and many others, are skillfully interpreted through the lenses of mobilities, diasporas, migrations, refugees, and exiles. I congratulate Natalia Bloch and Kathleen Adams for putting together this consequential tome, which is global in its reach and appeal. This masterpiece belongs on the desk of every social scientist who has interests in tourism, migration, exile and all other manifestations of human mobility." Dallen J. Timothy, Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Arizona State University

"One of the most important developments in the study of mobilities over the last quarter century has been a growing willingness by scholars to consider the intersections between different forms of (im)mobility. Kathleen Adams and Natalia Bloch's edited volume constitutes a major contribution to this effort. This diverse collection of ethnographic case studies demonstrates the dynamic productiveness of addressing the overlaps and interplays between tourism, migration, and exile rather than treating these mobilities as investigative siloes. It will be a significant resource in both research and teaching." Vered Amit, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Concordia University Montreal, Canada

"This collection constitutes an important step towards the integration of the study of mobilities. In a series of ethnographic case studies of tourists, migrants, exiles, refugees, returnees and volunteers, the volume provides a framework for the systematic study of the great variety of personal mobility phenomena in different parts of the contemporary world. The insights of the authors and editors constitute a step forward towards the formulation of a systematic comparative approach to mobilities." Erik Cohen, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Tourist, migrant, traveler, refugee: too often we take for granted what these terms mean and to whom they should be applied. This collection's lucid, thought-provoking chapters trenchantly challenge such simplistic categorizations, using the fine-grained lens of ethnography to reveal how mobilities overlap, intersect, and blur in lived experience-despite deep-rooted systems of governance, finance, representation, and scholarship that keep them conceptually distinct. Addressing a dazzling range of geographical settings, populations, motivations, and outcomes, this wonderfully coherent yet notably interdisciplinary volume will be a landmark work, prompting serious reflection and debate." Dr Naomi Leite, Reader in Anthropology, SOAS, University of London

2023-2024 Edward Bruner Book Prize Winner awarded by the American Anthropological Association's Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism:

"I think the approach taken in the book is truly ground-breaking! The book breaks the categorical barriers erected between these three supposedly distinct fields of study. Each chapter, or let's say case study, in the book tackles this issue without losing sight of the overarching topic at hand-Namely, tourism. It is food for thought and opens up new vistas for mobility studies. As someone who studied migrations and interested in tourism, I find the premise invigorating. It forces us to have a global view of mobilities-thus tourism-in the age of extensive mobility, forced, voluntary, or otherwise. Rather than "circumscribing ourselves within a single mobility silo," the book leads the way to avoid far too often taken for granted dichotomies of economic and political refugee, immigration and emigration, home and exile, natives and foreigners/tourists, and so on. The argument allows us to overcome the most often than not artificially imposed boundaries, created by policy choices at the institutional levels (local, national, international) and reified by academic disciplinary practices. There is ample ethnographic data presented to support the attempts in overcoming the fences between these types and spaces of mobility." Dr. Levent Soysal, book prize committee member