Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of ‘extracontinentales’—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.
The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap—the gateway from South to Central America.
Journey without End follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito’s tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama’s Darién Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The Leaving Business
Chapter 2: Entering the Americas: Into the Paws of the Coyotes
Chapter 3: Quito’s Little India
Chapter 4: Self-Catering on the Ecuador-Colombia Border
Chapter 5: Gulf of Urabá: The Two Faces of Paradise
Chapter 6: The Darién: The Land of the Dead
Chapter 7: Central America: Controlled Flow
Chapter 8: The Waiting Cell of Tapachula
Chapter 9: The Road Trip to End All Road Trips
Chapter 10: ‘Welcome to America’: Zero Tolerance in the Immigration Gulags
Conclusion: Destination Liminal
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
关于作者
Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones Newswires and the Dallas Morning News.
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