Full Description
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.
Contents
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
