Journey without End

di Rob Curran (Autore)

Andrew Nelson (Autore)

Tantor Audio, 2023

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"-African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster-riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal, to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darien Gap-the gateway from South to Central America. This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks-Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's Darien Gap, and a Mexican border town-into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

• Autore: Rob Curran, Andrew Nelson
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:11:29
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: Tantor Audio
• EAN: 9798765089088

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