ABSTRACT

Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years.

In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures, and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world.

Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part I|26 pages

Migration, (trans)borders, and the freedom of movement

chapter 1|10 pages

Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration

Rethinking freedom of movement

chapter 2|14 pages

Fugitivos de la Vida imposible

Transborders, migrations, and displacements

part II|56 pages

Labor, politics, and the question of limits

chapter 4|12 pages

Refuge and deportation

The future as property in the border regime

chapter 5|15 pages

At the border of sight

States, the civil contract, and Bracero Program photos 1

chapter 6|13 pages

Barbed wire

A history of cruelty

part III|46 pages

Gender, art, memory, and the migrant

chapter 7|8 pages

Mobile reorientations

Trans-agency and the queering of the Italian politics of migrant reception in Henrique Goldman’s Princesa

chapter 8|13 pages

Resilience beyond cruelty

Central American migrants pursuing the American dream

chapter 10|12 pages

States of exile

Kracauer’s extraterritoriality, and the poetics of memory in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Estado de exilio (2003)

part IV|54 pages

Colonial crossings/indigenous displacements

chapter 12|12 pages

Andean and Amazonian displacements

Culture and the effects of deforestation

chapter 13|14 pages

Language of space

Politics of indigenous people removal and the ethnopolitics of resistance: The post-colonial diaspora 1

chapter 14|14 pages

From genocide to Hieleras

The never-ending Maya genocide

part V|58 pages

Translocalities in Latin America

chapter 15|13 pages

Bordering the crisis

Race, migration, and political strategies in anti-populist Ecuador 1

chapter 16|12 pages

From the “suffering stranger” to the IDP

The emergence of a new problem area

chapter 17|16 pages

Dispossession by militarization

Forced displacements and the neoliberal “Drug War” for energy in Mexico

chapter 18|15 pages

Migration and the aging body

Elderly war refugees in Brazil between national borders and social boundaries

part VI|60 pages

Global migration/Mediterranean crossings

chapter 19|14 pages

Caribbean borderlands and traveling theories

Imperial frontier, translocal nations, federation of diasporas, planetary archipelago

chapter 20|18 pages

Europe Otherwise

Lessons from the Caribbean 1

chapter 22|12 pages

“On behalf of vulnerable strangers”

Interpreting communities-to-come 1