(Un)Settling Place

Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move

Heike Drotbohm editor Nanneke Winters editor Yaatsil Guevara González editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Published:1st Dec '24

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

(Un)Settling Place cover

People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. (Un)Settling Place recentralizes these “out-of-the-way” places as key sites in the shaping of people’s mobility and identities. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the re-claiming of space, this collection volume seeks to show how a critical approach to in-between place-making can challenge the idea of place as fixed, singular, or one-directional, offering new ways of understanding migrant trajectories.

“This volume breaks from the usual. Winters, Drotbohm, and Guevara González have assembled an excellent collection of cutting-edge contributions that cast new light on the meanings of place and place-making. With rich insights, the collection reveals how people on the move transform the “out-of-the-way places” they traverse in their journeys, even if when they stay only temporarily. The book offers much-needed clarity and insight into the multiple dimensions of (im)mobility that is sure to inspire future research. Highly recommended!”• Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles

ISBN: 9781805398103

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272 pages