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Humans have always moved, but across the world migration has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning the migrant as a problem?
This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders and how they are intertwined with the politics of race and nation. The book illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Migration Challenging Borders, Citizenship
and Race - Bridget Anderson
Part 1 Multiple Mobilities
Introduction - Lucy Donkin, Marķa Paula Escobar Tello and Laurence
Publicover
2. Mobile People and Places in Premodern Europe - Lucy Donkin
3. The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 160117: A Non-Human and
Unheroic History - Laurence Publicover
4. Cows on the Move: The (Im)Material Politics of Animal Passports and the
Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance - Marķa Paula Escobar Tello
Part 2 Productive Borders
Introduction - Manoj Dias- Abey, Angelo Martins Junior and Brendan Smith
5. Migrants and Borders in the Medieval English World - Brendan Smith
6. The Aliens Order 1920, the Work Permit and the Making of the National
Labour Market - Manoj Dias-Abey
7. The Production and Negotiation of the Good and the Bad Migrant -
Angelo Martins Junior
Part 3 Transformative Representations
Introduction - Nariman Massoumi, Florian Scheding and Juan Zhang
8. Why Cant Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatized
Returns in Pandemic Times - Juan Zhang
9. The Family Idyll, Exclusion and Ideology in Persepolis - Nariman Massoumi
10. Sounds across Borders and the Ukraine War - Florian Scheding
Part 4 Beyond Migrants and Migration
Introduction - Natasha Carver, Brid Brennan and Holly Rooke
11. Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK
Political Elites - Holly Rooke and Natasha Carver
12. Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organizing and Transnational
Campaigning Past and Future - Brid Brennan, interviewed by Bridget Anderson
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, and Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol at the University of Bristol.
