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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
Yaatsil Guevara González is a Junior Professor of Migration and the Americas at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies, Germany, previously working for the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (Mainz), the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence and the Center for Inter American Studies (Bielefeld). She was a fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (Costa Rica). Specializing in refugee studies, displacement, and the anthropology of everyday life, her contributions include Material Culture and (Forced) Migration (UCL, 2022) and Report Global (Fisherman, 2023).