9781032750880: Forced Migration in Transit

Synopsis

This book compares the life courses of forced migrants in two of the world’s most important transit countries: Turkey and Mexico. It examines the local, regional, and global contexts of their experiences, trajectories, and biographical projects, caught between return, stay, and forward movement.

Forced migration has increased rapidly around the world in recent years, with Mexico and Turkey experiencing particularly high numbers of migrants, as conflict, violence, authoritarian regimes, environmental disasters, economic instability, lack of opportunity, and generalized violence have driven people to leave their homes in search of a better life. With a special focus on organized violence, this book analyzes the specific impact of organized violence on the trajectories and biographies of forced migrants, situating these life courses in the political, economic, cultural, and social contexts of the countries of origin (Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria; El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) and in the country of transit (Turkey and Mexico). Using extensive original empirical data and analysis, it argues that forced migration is a long-lasting social process based on everyday actions and social practices throughout the migration trajectory.

Systematically comparing two of the world’s most important transit countries, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of migration, politics, international relations, and sociology.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ludger Pries is Senior-Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Stephanie Schütze is Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a specialization in gender and migration studies at the Lateinamerika-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Ximena Alba Villalever is an anthropologist at the Lateinamerika-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where she is coordinator of the Gender Studies profile of the Master’s program.

Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci is a demographer and Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology, Department of Social Science, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.

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9781032750866: Forced Migration in Transit

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ISBN 10 :  1032750863 ISBN 13 :  9781032750866
Editeur : Routledge, 2024
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