Bounded mobilities : ethnographic perspectives on social hierarchies and global inequalities
Cover Bounded Mobilities -- Contents -- Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project -- Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems -- I. Introduction -- Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction -- Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle-Ground? -- II. Identities and Boundaries -- "So, now I...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Bielefeld : transcript,
2016
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Kultur und soziale Praxis
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| Sujets: | Emigration and immigration--Social aspects Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Résumé: | Cover Bounded Mobilities -- Contents -- Mobility and Immobility: Background of the Project -- Im/mobilities in Subjects and Systems -- I. Introduction -- Bounded Mobilities: An Introduction -- Critical Mobility Studies as a Political Middle-Ground? -- II. Identities and Boundaries -- "So, now I am Eritrean": Mobility Strategies and Multiple Senses of Belonging between Local Complexity and Global Immobility -- Stigmatised Mobility and the Everyday Politics of (In)visibility: The Intricate Pathways of Palestinians in Tel Aviv -- From one Side of the Wall to the Other: The Deconstruction of a Physical and Symbolic Barrier between Israel and the West Bank -- III. Imagination and Time -- (Im)mobility, Urbanism and Belonging: Being Immobile and Dreaming Mobility in Greece -- On Being Stuck in the Wrong Life: Home-Longing, Movement and the Pain of Existential Immobility -- Mobility in a Congealed Room? Asylum Seekers (in Munich) between Institutionalised Immobility and Self-Mobilisation -- Small-Scale Mobility and National Border Politics: Western European Border Formation in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Gendered Im/mobilities -- From the "Periphery" to the "Centre": Cross-Border Marriages between Mainland Chinese Women and Hong Kong Men -- Dislocating Punjabiyat: Gendered Mobilities among Indian Diasporas in Italy -- V. Virtual Im/mobilities -- "The World Has no Limits, so Why Should You?": Migration through Marriage in Times of Increasing Digitalization and Securitization of Borders -- Virtual Im___mobilities: Three Ethnographic Examples of Socialised Media Usage, Civic Empowerment and Coded Publics -- VI. Fixations within Mobility and Multilocality -- The Economic Diaspora: The Triple Helix of Im/mobilisation in the Hype about Migration and Development -- The Experience of Multilocal Living: Mobile Immobilities or Immobile Mobilities?. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783839431238 3839431239 9783837631234 3837631230 |