Liquid Borders : Migration As Resistance

"Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the largescale migration of people across borders which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years. In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean, to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world. Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies"-- Provided by publisher Contents 6 List of figures 10 List of contributors 11 Introduction • Mabel Moraña 20 Part I: Migration, (trans)borders, and the freedom of movement 34 1 Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration: Rethinking freedom of movement • Sandro Mezzadra 36 2 Fugitivos de la Vida imposible: Transborders, migrations, and displacements • José Manuel Valenzuela Arce 46 Part II: Labor, politics, and the question of limits 60 3 Transmigrants as embodiment of biocapitalism • Abril Trigo 62 4 Refuge and deportation: The future as property in the border regime • Angela Naimou 76 5 At the border of sight: States, the civil contract, and Bracero Program photos • Deborah Cohen 88 6 Barbed wire: A history of cruelty • Tabea Linhard 103 Part III: Gender, art, memory, and the migrant 116 7 Mobile reorientations: Trans-agency and the queering of the Italian politics of migrant reception in Henrique Goldman’s Princesa • Elena Dalla Torre 118 8 Resilience beyond cruelty: Central American migrants pursuing the American dream • Ana Del Sarto 126 9 Border art for a border ecology • Ila Nicole Sheren 139 10 States of exile: Kracauer’s extraterritoriality, and the poetics of memory in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Estado de exilio (2003) • Ignacio Infante 150 Part IV: Colonial crossings/indigenous displacements 162 11 Early modern religious displacement and transnational Catholic subjects • Stephanie Kirk 164 12 Andean and Amazonian displacements: Culture and the effects of deforestation • José Antonio Mazzotti 176 13 Language of space: Politics of indigenous people removal and the ethnopolitics of resistance: The post-colonial diaspora • Stefano Varese 188 14 From genocide to Hieleras: The never-ending Maya genocide • Arturo Arias 202 Part V: Translocalities in Latin America 216 15 Bordering the crisis: Race, migration, and political strategies in anti-populist Ecuador • Jorge Daniel Vásquez 218 16 From the “suffering stranger” to the IDP: The emergence of a new problem area • Juan Ricardo Aparicio 231 17 Dispossession by militarization: Forced displacements and the neoliberal “Drug War” for energy in Mexico • Oswaldo Zavala 243 18 Migration and the aging body: Elderly war refugees in Brazil between national borders and social boundaries • Bahia M. Munem 259 Part VI: Global migration/Mediterranean crossings 274 19 Caribbean borderlands and traveling theories: Imperial frontier, translocal nations, federation of diasporas, planetary archipelago • Agustín Laó-Montes 276 20 Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean • Manuela Boatcă 290 21 Visualizing the Black Mediterranean • Michelle Murray 308 22 “On behalf of vulnerable strangers”: Interpreting communities-to-come • Mina Karavanta 322 Index 334 Introduction: Liquid borders. Migrancy as resistance / Mabel Moraña -- Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration. Rethinking freedom of movement / Sandro Mezzadra -- Fugitives of the impossible life : transborders, migrations and displacements / José Manuel Valenzuela Arce -- The transnational migrant as embodiment of biocapitalism / Abril Trigo -- Refuge and deportation : notes on the future as property in the border regime / Angela Naimou -- At the border of sight : states, the civil contract, and bracero program photos / Deborah Cohen -- Barbed wire. A history of cruelty / Tabea Linhard -- Mobile re-orientations : trans agency and the queering of the Italian politics of migrant reception in Henrique Goldman's Princesa / Elena Dalla Torre -- Resilience beyond cruelty : Central American migrants pursuing the American dream / Ana del Sarto -- Border art for a border ecology / Ila Sheren -- States of exile : Kracauer's (extra)territoriality and the poetics of memory in Cristina Peri Rossi's Estado de Exilio (2003) / Ignacio Infante -- Early modern religious displacement and transnational Catholic subjects / Stephanie Kirk -- Andean and Amazonian displacements : culture and the effects of deforestation / José Antonio Mazzotti -- Language of space. Politics of indigenous people removal and the ethnopolitics of resistance. The post-colonial diasporas / Stefano Varese -- From genocide to hieleras : the never-ending Maya genocide / Arturo Arias -- Bordering the crisis. Race, migration and political strategies in anti-populist Ecuador / Jorge Daniel Vásquez -- From the 'suffering stranger' to the IDP : the emergence of a new problem area / Juan Ricardo Aparicio -- Dispossession by militarization : forced disappearances and the neoliberal 'drug war' for natural resources in Mexico / Oswaldo Zavala -- Migration and the aging body. Elderly war refugees in Brazil : between borders and social boundaries / Bahia Munem -- Imperial borders, translocal nations, subaltern cosmopolitanisms : counterpointing Cuba and Puerto Rico from the age of empire to horizons of decolonial trans/Americanism / Agustín Lao-Montes -- Europe otherwise. Lessons from the Caribbean / Manuela Boatcǎ -- Visualizing the black Mediterranean / Michelle Murray -- 'Belonging on behalf of 'vulnerable strangers' : interpreting communities-to-come / Mina Karavanta