A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South
By the end of 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 100 million, the highest figure since the Second World War. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Taliban political takeover in Afghanistan exacerbated an already protracted global refugee situation, but climate-related events also played a part in forcing millions of people to leave their homes in search of more habitable living areas.
Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migrant in the Global South
provides fresh understandings of mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration across the Global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Moving away from North–South, East–West binaries and challenging the conception that migratory movements are primarily unidirectional—from South to North—it explores how state policies, migrants’ trajectories, nationalism and discrimination, and art and knowledge production unfold in places as widespread as Egypt, Turkey, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Haiti.
Seventeen academics, activists, and artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and international relations reveal the diverse narratives, migration patterns, forms of agency, and laws that make up the complex reality of South–South migration, offering vital new pathways for research in migration studies today.
Contributors:
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Chowdhury R. Abrar
, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), Dhaka, Bangladesh
David Bolanos
, Independent photographer, Costa Rica
Danyel M. Ferrari
, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Leander Kandilige
, University of Ghana, Accra
Mélanie V. Léger-Montinard
, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duduzile S
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Ndlovu
, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Evrim Hikmet Öğüt
, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sara Sadek
, The American Universityin Cairo, Egypt
Tasneem Siddiqui
, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sally Souraya
, Independent artist, London United Kingdom
Allison B. Wolf
, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Kudakwashe Vanyoro
Thomas Yeboah
, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana