Full Description
This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights. Dwelling on ethnographic case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the USA, and Europe, the volume illuminates the experiences of vulnerable communities, showcasing their solidarities, networks, and supportive dynamics that emerge from the harsh realities of social life. Analysing the world from the lens of fraternal relations and spaces that arise and abound in the lifeworld of the marginalised and vulnerable communities, this edited volume illustrates how without these burgeoning solidarities, migrants and other at-risk populations may have a harder struggle to navigate the socio-economic and political challenges they face. Furthermore, the book emphasises that nation-states would encounter even more profound and complex difficulties without such intricate coping mechanisms. The essays within the volume demonstrate that these mechanisms are vital to addressing dilemmas, stalemates, and the stakeholder politics surrounding people living in precarious, hidden and dark contexts. The case studies which enrich theoretical debates, also indicate how these dark contexts would be significantly more difficult to traverse without the robust and nuanced messages coded in actor solidarities and resilience.
The volume is poised to attract significant attention from scholars and researchers committed to anthropology, ethnography, history, migration, international politics and refugee studies.
Contents
1. Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities, Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States 2. Reimagining Vulnerability beyond `Dark`: Can the Marginalised Inform Research and Policy? Part I: Persistent Challenges of the Vulnerable and the Othered 3. "Dark" Narratives of Venezuelan Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago: Rethinking Identity Politics and Social Movements 4. Personal Histories: The Challenges and Struggles of Indian H-1 B and H-4 Visa Holders in USA 5. Ecology, Environment and the Defender Communities under Threat: Of Survival and Resistance Part II: State Policies and the Vulnerable 6. A Historical and Contemporary Overview of 'Dark Ethnography and Othering' of a Minority: The Situation of South Africans of Indian Origin 7. Venezuelan Migration to Trinidad: A Study on Crime, Gangs and Violent Extremism 8. Exploring Nigerian Migrants'/Nationals' Experiences of Violence, Safety, and Security in Durban, South Africa Part III: Rethinking the Issues of the Vulnerable in Face of Everyday Solidarities and Community Actions 9. Solidarity as an Identity element: Perspectives from Argentina 10. Whose Crisis? Between Othering and Solidarity During the So-called Refugee Crisis in Europe 11. Patriarchy: Gujarati Migrant Brides in Durban, South Africa 12. Reflective Process on Self-identity and Migration: What Makes Me, Me?
