Description
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.
Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants.
Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *
“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics.
Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1
Part I: Vehicles of Migration
1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35
2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The
Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58
3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84
4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105
Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures
5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131
6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153
7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183
Part III: The Geophysics of Migration
8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211
9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235
10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258
Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281
Contributors 295
Index 301
