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"This volume addresses forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. It explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of 'migration management' and secure borders. People from Muslim territories make up the majority of the world's forced movers today, but are increasingly barred from traditional routes and pathways to safety. Managing Muslim Mobilities analyzes how states in the region call on Islamic ideas of welcome, sanctuary and protection while establishing policies to prevent movement and citizenship. The volume embraces a 'mobilities' perspective to critique policy assumptions about international borders and to highlight the relationship between people and places. All long-time observers of theregion, the volume's contributors draw upon original and empirically grounded research to analyze population mobility for Palestinians, Iraqis, Sudanese, Afghans, Albanians, Turks, and others, and migration management policies in Jordan, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the Gulf states, as well as Muslim migration to Germany and the US. "--
List of contents
Acknowledgements Foreword: Geographies of Domination and Geographies of Resistance (Leif Manger) Chapter One: Managing Muslim Mobilities: A conceptual framework (Riina Isotalo and Anita Fábos) SECTION I: HISTORIES Chapter Two: Iraqi Refugees in the Arab Muslim World: Ottoman Legacies and Orientalist Presumptions (Dawn Chatty) Chapter Three: Spiritual Migration in the Context of Political Change: Bektashi Babas of Rumeli (Frances Trix) SECTION II: SECURITIZED MOBILITY, POLITICISED PRESENCE Chapter Four: Fear of Palestinization: Managing Refugees in the Middle East (Riina Isotalo) Chapter Five: The Discourse of Guesthood: Forced Migrants in Jordan (Oroub El-Abed) SECTION III: GRASPING THE TRANSFORMATION Chapter Six: Between Ghurba and Umma: Mapping Sudanese Muslim Moralities across National and Islamic Space (Anita Fábos) Chapter Seven: Accommodating Subversion and Social Transformation: Afghan Women's Clandestine Educational Movement in Iran (Homa Hoodfar) Chapter Eight: The Stuttgart Crescent: Muslim Material And Spiritual Geographies In Germany (Petra Kuppinger) SECTION IV: CONCLUSION Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Blurry Polarization-Muslim Mobilities Reconfigured (Riina Isotalo and Anita Fábos)
About the author
Leif O. Manger, University of Bergen, Norway
Dawn Chatty, Oxford University, UK
Francis Trix, Indiana University, USA
Petra Kuppinger, Monmouth College, USA
Oroub El-Abed, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University, CanadaLaura Hammond, SOAS, University of London, UK
Abdurahman Sharif, Muslim Charities Forum, UK
Laura Hammond, SOAS, University of London, UK
Summary
Fábos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of 'migration management' and secure borders.
Report
"This is an extremely interesting and timely volume showcasing the wide variety of movement in the contemporary global environment. One of its strengths is the primarily focus upon movement within the Muslim world - a subject which is only recently starting to attract attention beyond scholars working on a specific case study. Managing Muslim Mobilities is certainly original in terms of the issues that it covers and the original research which mostly benefits from rich and detailed fieldwork." - Fiona McCallum, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK
