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Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present Volume 7

Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present Volume 7

Paynter, Eleanor

Paperback

Series: Critical Refugee Studies

General Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520402901
ISBN13: 9780520402904
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Nov 26 2024
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Emergency in Transit responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the global north. This capacious, interdisciplinary study reformulates Europe's so-called migrant crisis from a sudden disaster to a site of contested witnessing, where competing narratives threaten, uphold, or reimagine migrant rights.

Focusing on Italy, a crucial port of arrival, Eleanor Paynter draws together testimonials from ethnographic research--alongside literature, film, and visual art--to interrogate the colonial, racial logics that inform emergency responses to migration. She also examines the media, discourses, policies, and practices that shape lived experiences of migration well beyond international borders. Centering the witnessing of Black Africans in Italy, Emergency in Transit reveals how this emergency apparatus operates and posits a vision of mobility that refutes the notions of crisis so often imposed on those who cross the Mediterranean Sea.

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