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Winner of the 2023-2024 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the American Anthropological Association's Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism/Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group
This book challenges the classic - and often tacit - compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they often intertwine, overlap, and influence one another.
Tourism, migration, and exile evoke widely varying policies, diverse popular reactions, and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender, class, ethnic, and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people's movements? This book presents 12 predominantly ethnographic case studies from around the world, and a pandemic-focused conclusion, that address these issues. In recounting and juxtaposing stories of refugees' and migrants' returns, marriage migrants, voluntourists, migrant retirees, migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs, mobile investors and professionals, and refugees pursuing educational mobility, this book cultivates more nuanced insights into intersecting forms of mobility. Ultimately, this work promises to foster not only empathy but also greater resolve for forging trails toward mobility justice.
This accessibly written volume will be essential to scholars and students in critical migration, tourism, and refugee studies, including anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers, and researchers in political science and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to non-academic professionals and general readers interested in contemporary mobilities.
Contents
Foreword- Mimi Sheller
Introduction: Problematizing Siloed Mobilities: Tourism, Migration, Exile.
Kathleen M. Adams and Natalia Bloch
Chapter 1. Temporality and the Intersection of Tourism and Migration: Mobilities between Cuba and Denmark.
Nadine T. Fernandez
Chapter 2. Migrant, Tourist, Cuban: Identification and Belonging in Return Visits to Cuba.
Valerio Simoni
Chapter 3. Diasporic Im/mobilities: Migrants, Returnees, Deportees, Expats, Tourists and Beyond in the Vietnamese Homeland.
Long T. Bui
Chapter 4. Student Migration as an Escape from Protracted Exile: The Case of Young Sahrawi Refugees.
Rita Reis
Chapter 5. The Intersections between Tourism and Exile: Justice Tourism in Bethlehem, Palestine.
Rami K. Isaac
Chapter 6. Crafting Activists from Tourists: Volunteer Engagement during the "Refugee Crisis" in Serbia.
Robert Rydzewski
Chapter 7. Panama's Temporary Migrants in the Tourism Era.
Carla Guerrón Montero
Chapter 8. Intersections of Tourism, Cross-border Marriage, and Retirement Migration in Thailand.
Kosita Butratana, Alexander Trupp, Karl Husa
Chapter 9. The Tourist, the Migrant, and the Anthropologist: A Problematic Encounter within European Cities.
Francesco Vietti
Chapter 10. In and Out of Brazil: Overlapping Mobilities in the Capoeira Archipelago.
Lauren Miller Griffith
Chapter 11. Intersections of Professional Mobility and Tourism among Swedish Physicians and Researchers.
Magnus Öhlander, Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Helena Pettersson
Chapter 12. Mobility through Investment: Economics, Tourism, or Lifestyle Migration? Narratives of Chinese and Brazilian Golden Visa Holders in Portugal.
Maria de Fátima Amante, Irene Rodrigues
Pandemic Postscript: Tourism, Migration, Exile.
Stephanie Malia Hom
