
Rethinking Migration
Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 17. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-5292-3447-3 (ISBN)
Description
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Humans have always moved, but across the world 'migration' has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning 'the migrant' as a problem?
This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders and how they are intertwined with the politics of race and nation. The book illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.
Humans have always moved, but across the world 'migration' has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning 'the migrant' as a problem?
This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders and how they are intertwined with the politics of race and nation. The book illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle, 7 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
418 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-3447-3 (9781529234473)
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Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race
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Persons
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, and Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol at the University of Bristol.
Contributions
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
University of Bristol
Content
1. Introduction: Rethinking Migration - Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race - Bridget Anderson
Part 1 Multiple Mobilities
Introduction - Lucy Donkin, Maria Paula Escobar Tello and Laurence Publicover
2. Mobile People and Places in Premodern Europe - Lucy Donkin
3. The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 1601-17: A Non-Human and Unheroic History - Laurence Publicover
4. Cows on the Move: The (Im)Material Politics of Animal Passports and the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance - Maria Paula Escobar Tello
Part 2 Productive Borders
Introduction - Manoj Dias- Abey, Angelo Martins Junior and Brendan Smith
5. Migrants and Borders in the Medieval English World - Brendan Smith
6. The Aliens Order 1920, the 'Work Permit' and the Making of the National Labour Market - Manoj Dias-Abey
7. The Production and Negotiation of the 'Good' and the 'Bad' Migrant - Angelo Martins Junior
Part 3 Transformative Representations
Introduction - Nariman Massoumi, Florian Scheding and Juan Zhang
8. Why Can't Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatized Returns in Pandemic Times - Juan Zhang
9. The Family Idyll, Exclusion and Ideology in Persepolis - Nariman Massoumi
10. Sounds across Borders and the Ukraine War - Florian Scheding
Part 4 Beyond Migrants and Migration
Introduction - Natasha Carver, Brid Brennan and Holly Rooke
11. Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites - Holly Rooke and Natasha Carver
12. Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organizing and Transnational Campaigning Past and Future - Brid Brennan, interviewed by Bridget Anderson
Part 1 Multiple Mobilities
Introduction - Lucy Donkin, Maria Paula Escobar Tello and Laurence Publicover
2. Mobile People and Places in Premodern Europe - Lucy Donkin
3. The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 1601-17: A Non-Human and Unheroic History - Laurence Publicover
4. Cows on the Move: The (Im)Material Politics of Animal Passports and the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance - Maria Paula Escobar Tello
Part 2 Productive Borders
Introduction - Manoj Dias- Abey, Angelo Martins Junior and Brendan Smith
5. Migrants and Borders in the Medieval English World - Brendan Smith
6. The Aliens Order 1920, the 'Work Permit' and the Making of the National Labour Market - Manoj Dias-Abey
7. The Production and Negotiation of the 'Good' and the 'Bad' Migrant - Angelo Martins Junior
Part 3 Transformative Representations
Introduction - Nariman Massoumi, Florian Scheding and Juan Zhang
8. Why Can't Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatized Returns in Pandemic Times - Juan Zhang
9. The Family Idyll, Exclusion and Ideology in Persepolis - Nariman Massoumi
10. Sounds across Borders and the Ukraine War - Florian Scheding
Part 4 Beyond Migrants and Migration
Introduction - Natasha Carver, Brid Brennan and Holly Rooke
11. Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites - Holly Rooke and Natasha Carver
12. Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organizing and Transnational Campaigning Past and Future - Brid Brennan, interviewed by Bridget Anderson