Rethinking Migration : Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race

Abstract

Rethinking Migration brings together researchers across multiple disciplines to investigate how we can rethink migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It demonstrates how today’s international borders are entangled in deeply entrenched politics of race and nation. This entanglement interacts with the idea of the migrant – and the emigrant – as represented in the media and popular culture to reflect and reproduce changing ideas and hierarchies of belonging and community. At the same time, the fact that humans move, within and across many kinds of borders, reflects and impacts on ecosystems, socioeconomic relations and technological change. Migration is not a stand-alone issue and this volume shows how mobility scholarship can be connected to many other fields and struggles for justice.