Published
Feb 17, 2025Page count
272 pagesISBN
978-1529234473Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 17, 2025Page count
272 pagesISBN
978-1529234480Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Feb 17, 2025Page count
272 pagesISBN
978-1529234497Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Rethinking Migration
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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 contemporary 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.
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Migration – Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race - Bridget Anderson
Part 1: Multiple Mobilities
2. Moving People and Places in Premodern Europe - Lucy Donkin
3. The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 1601-1617: A Nonhuman and Unheroic History - Laurence Publicover
4. Cows on the Move: The (Im)Material Politics of Animal Passports and the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance - María Paula Escobar Tello
Part 2: Productive Borders
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
8. Why Can’t Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatised 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
11. Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites - Holly Rooke and Natasha Carver
12. Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organising and Transnational Campaigning past and Future - Brid Brennan interviewed by Bridget Anderson