Emergency in Transit

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"Emergency in Transit is a profound contribution to scholarship on migration, cultural studies, and racial justice, and will undoubtedly become a key text for scholars and practitioners alike." * Racial and Ethnic Studies * "A groundbreaking new resource for researchers, authors, activists, and anyone interested in how contemporary migration and the borderscapes are reproduced via this emergencification of migration." * Border Criminologies * "Paynter's skillful blending of theoretical rigor with ethnographic and narrative insight makes the book both analytically rich and emotionally resonant." * European Journal of Life Writing * "Emergency in Transit analyzes contemporary migration, particularly African migration directed towards Italy, through a critical and multidisciplinary lens. Paynter challenges the dominant narrative of the 'migration emergency,' proposing instead a view in which migration is understood as a structural and permanent condition, not as an extraordinary event." * Pianeta Libri news * "The book offers a pertinent analysis that seeks to question the official narrative envisioning migration as a crisis to be addressed in terms of governance without considering the migrants' side of the story." * Journal of Migration and Culture * "Eleanor Paynter's Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present emerges as a seminal contribution to the interdisciplinary field of critical refugee studies, particularly in its incisive analysis of migration as a colonial and racialized apparatus operating within the broader geopolitical landscape of the Mediterranean. . . .A groundbreaking addition to critical refugee studies, urging a reimagining of borders, memory and the future beyond the legacy of emergency and crisis." * Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration * "A comprehensive interdisciplinary study that centers on the experience of Black Africans in Italy." * Journal of American Ethnic History * "A sustained ethnography of migration governance that reframes 'crisis' as a temporal and bureaucratic condition rather than an exceptional rupture." * Australian Journal of Anthropology *