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This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind. As conflicts over identities and space continue to erupt on a regular basis, this book reads the relationship between migration, identity, and space from a fresh and innovative perspective.
List of contents
1. Introduction: How Does Migration Take Place?.- 2. Walking to the Northern Mines: Mesoamerican Migration in New Spain.- 3. Big History and the Local Response: Migration and Identity in a European Borderland.- 4. Mapping Museums in New Zealand: The Representation of Place Identity in the Permanent Exhibition at the Puhoi Bohemian Museum.- 5. Moving Barbed Wire: Geographies of Border Crossing during World War II.- 6. Image and Imagination in the Creation of Pakistan.- 7. Jumping Tribal Boundaries: Space, Mobility, and Identity in Kenya.- 8. Movement after Migration: The Cultivation of Transnational Algerian Jewish Networks, 1962-1973.- 9. Silent Forced Migrations in Twenty-First Century Jerusalem.- 10. Defining Borders on Land and Sea: Italy, the European Union, and Mediterranean Refugees 2011-2015.- 11. B/Ordering Turbulence beyond Europe: Expert Knowledge in the Management of Human Mobility.- 12. The "Right to the City" in the Landscapes of Servitude and Migration, From the Philippines to the Arabian Gulf, and Back.- 13. The Politics of Space and Identity: Making Place in a Suburban District.- 14. Conclusion: A Geographer's Perspective on Migration, Identity, and Space.
About the author
Tabea Linhard is Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and International Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Timothy H. Parsons holds a joint appointment as Professor of African History in the History Department and the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind. As conflicts over identities and space continue to erupt on a regular basis, this book reads the relationship between migration, identity, and space from a fresh and innovative perspective.
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“This is a good introduction to a broad range of topics involving migration, as well as a diving board for deeper discussion. It’s best suited for humanities and social sciences scholars, students, and those interested in the research of and application of maps and geography to the titular topics. Mapping Migration, Identity, and Spacewould make a great course reading or textbook, but is also fascinating as a way to brush up on history and the various ways it can be interpreted.” (base line, Vol. 40 (3), June, 2019)
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"This is a good introduction to a broad range of topics involving migration, as well as a diving board for deeper discussion. It's best suited for humanities and social sciences scholars, students, and those interested in the research of and application of maps and geography to the titular topics. Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space would make a great course reading or textbook, but is also fascinating as a way to brush up on history and the various ways it can be interpreted." (base line, Vol. 40 (3), June, 2019)
