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2 books match the query 'Mobilities'
Figures of Deportation
Borders, Mobilities, and Andean World-MakingUlla D. Berg
Duke University Press, 2027
In Figures of Deportation, Ulla D. Berg reframes public and political discourses on deportation beyond the criminalized figure of the “illegal alien” to instead examine the efforts of South American migrants to make life through mobility under the global deportation regime. Berg bases her analysis on a decade of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork with deported migrants and their families in Indigenous communities in southern Ecuador, urban districts in Peru, and in US detention centers, immigration courts, and urban communities. Across these sites, Berg recounts the profoundly disruptive effects of sudden separation of individuals from their families and communities but also reveals the mundanity deportation represents for Peruvian and Ecuadorian migrants, often leading to new mobilities. Berg makes the case that deportation studies should not solely center on state-driven and humanitarian logics but consider the social and material world-making activities of migrants and their communities. In doing so, she foregrounds Andean migrants as active and adaptive agents living with, but not defined by, deportation and its consequences.
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Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle ClassesJohn Wei
Hong Kong University Press, 2020
In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people’s ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today’s queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, Wei interrogates the meanings and functions of mobilities at the forefront of China’s internal transformation and international expansion for its great dream of revival, when gender and sexuality have become increasingly mobilized with geographical, cultural, and social class migrations and mobilizations beyond traditional and conventional frameworks, categories, and boundaries.
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