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Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power This book centers the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when seen from the per- spective of people on the move; in doing so, the volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull, and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of migration research. Drawn from a range of disciplines and methodologies, this anthology links disparate theories, approaches, and geographical foci to better understand the spectrum of the migratory experience from the viewpoint of migrants themselves. The book explores the causes and consequences of human dis- placement at different scales (both individual and community-level) and across different time points (from antiquity to the present) and geographies (not just the Global North but also the Global South). Transnational schol- ars across a range of knowledge cultures advance a broader global discourse on mobility and migration that centers on the direct experiences and narra- tives of migrants themselves. Both interdisciplinary and accessible, this book will be useful for scholars and students in Migration Studies, Global Studies, Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology. Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. Trinh Tran is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Education Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power Edited by Tamar Mayer and Trinh Tran First published 2022 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Tamar Mayer and Trinh Tran; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Tamar Mayer and Trinh Tran to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mayer, Tamar, 1952- editor. | Tran, Trinh, editor. Title: Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power / edited by Tamar Mayer and Trinh Tran. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021062075 (print) | LCCN 2021062076 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367772932 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367772949 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003170686 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Immigrants--Developing countries--Social conditions. | Refugees--Developing countries--Social conditions. | Internal migrants--Developing countries--Social conditions. | Imperialism--Social aspects. | Developing countries--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. Classification: LCC JV6225 .D57 2022 (print) | LCC JV6225 (ebook) | DDC 304.809172/4--dc23/eng/20220322 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062075 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062076 ISBN: 978-0-367-77293-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-77294-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-17068-6 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003170686 Typeset in Times New Roman MT Std by SPi Technologies India Pvt Ltd (Straive) To Shoshana Mayer and to the memory of Artur Mayer, Tai Tran, and Hia Quach, who all made the journey as migrants Contents List of illustrations x Editors xi List of contributors xii Acknowledgments xix 1 Displacement, belonging, and migrant agency in the face of power: challenging paradigms in migration studies 1 TAMAR MAYER AND TRINH TRAN PART I Regimes of belonging 39 2 Out of place in antiquity 41 ELENA ISAYEV 3 Reimagining “refugee” protection: beyond improving the status quo 62 JENNIFER HYNDMAN 4 Governance of migration in South Asia: the need for a decolonial approach 78 SABYASACHI BASU RAY CHAUDHURY 5 Lives on the move: experiences of exclusion, vulnerability, and resilience of Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru 92 LUISA FELINE FREIER AND ANDREA KVIETOK PART II Drivers of displacement 107 6 War and forced migration in medieval Iberia (1085–1266): between al-Andalus and the feudal world 109 J. SANTIAGO PALACIOS viii Contents 7 Migration and modern slavery: perspectives in Africa to Europe migration 123 OLAYINKA AKANLE 8 The anxious integration of former enclave or “new” citizens in North Bengal, India 136 NASREEN CHOWDHORY AND SHAMNA THACHAM POYIL 9 Climate and non-climatic stressors, internal migration, and belonging in Ghana 153 HANSON NYANTAKYI-FRIMPONG AND DINKO HANAAN DINKO 10 Henancun in Beijing, a parallel society in the making 166 JIA FENG AND GUO CHEN PART III Re-creating home away from home 183 11 Uprooted: living between two worlds—German postwar refugee: narratives on displacement and exile 185 ANDREAS KOSSERT AND TAMAR MAYER 12 Palestine in exile: blurring the boundaries and re-creating the homeland 199 ANNE IRFAN 13 Displacement, diaspora, and statelessness: framing the Kurdish case 212 NAIF BEZWAN AND JANROJ YILMAZ KELES 14 What makes a place a home?: Syrian refugees’ narratives on belonging in Turkey 225 DOĞUŞ ŞIMŞEK 15 “This is about making family”: creating communities of belonging in schools serving refugee-background students 238 SHAWNA SHAPIRO PART IV Gender, sexuality, age, and belonging 253 16 “I am not alone”: Rohingya women negotiating home and belonging in Bangladesh’s refugee camps 255 FARHANA RAHMAN AND NAFAY CHOUDHURY Contents ix 17 Journeys of belonging: Latina migrant lesbians in Long Beach, California 271 SANDIBEL BORGES 18 The welfare state and women’s citizenship in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen 284 BEN SUZUKI GRAVES 19 Navigating the regime of illegality: experiences of migration and racialization among 1.5-generation Mexican migrant women 298 HEIDY SARABIA, LAURA ZARAGOZA, AND ALEJANDRA AGUILAR PART V Challenges to migration research 315 20 Refusal and migration research: new possibilities for feminist social science 317 EMILY MITCHELL-EATON AND KATE CODDINGTON Index 331
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