Lives in Transit

Lives in Transit

Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey

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Publication Date: 13th November 2018

Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt... Read More
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Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt... Read More
Description
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged along transit routes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimagine transit as a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.
Details
  • Price: $95.00
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
  • Publication Date: 13th November 2018
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustration Note: 17 b-w photos, 1 map
  • ISBN: 9780520298545
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    HISTORY / Latin America / General
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Reviews
"Vogt is a storyteller at core, and Lives in Transit is an indelible piece of groundbreaking work that bears testament to the embodied violence, intimacy, and resistance of Central American migrants in Mexico."
- Latino Studies
Author Bio
Wendy A. Vogt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
1. Circulations of Violence
2. The Arterial Border
3. The Migrant Industry
4. Embodied Mobilities
5. Intimate Crossings
6. (In)Security and Safety
7. Constellations of Care
Conclusion: The Unforgotten

Notes
References
Index
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged along transit routes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimagine transit as a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.
  • Price: $95.00
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
  • Publication Date: 13th November 2018
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustrations Note: 17 b-w photos, 1 map
  • ISBN: 9780520298545
  • Format: Hardcover
  • BISACs:
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    HISTORY / Latin America / General
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
"Vogt is a storyteller at core, and Lives in Transit is an indelible piece of groundbreaking work that bears testament to the embodied violence, intimacy, and resistance of Central American migrants in Mexico."
– Latino Studies
Wendy A. Vogt is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
1. Circulations of Violence
2. The Arterial Border
3. The Migrant Industry
4. Embodied Mobilities
5. Intimate Crossings
6. (In)Security and Safety
7. Constellations of Care
Conclusion: The Unforgotten

Notes
References
Index