Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity

Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as 'traditional' or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration.

List of contents

1. Patterns of im/mobility, conflict and the re/making of identity narratives 2. ‘Hunger has brought us into this jungle’: understanding mobility and immobility of Bengali immigrants in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh 3. Interpreting conflict and integration through the reciprocity lens: mobility and settlement in a historical perspective on the Sierra Leonean coast 4. The complementarity of divergent historical imaginations: narratives of mobility and alterity in contemporary Liberia 5. Changing patterns of mobility, citizenship and conflict in Indonesia 6. Im/mobile subjects: identity, conflict and emotion work among East Timorese Meto diaspora 7. In ‘no man’s land’: the im/mobility of Serb NGO workers in Kosovo

About the author

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2013, Berghahn), The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice (2010, Berghahn) and Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

Summary

Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as ‘traditional’ or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration.

Product details

• Authors: Birgit Brauchler
• Assisted by: Birgit Bräuchler (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032014814
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3201481-4
• No. of pages: 118
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, HISTORY / World, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LAW / Constitutional, General & world history, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, General and world history, Civil rights & citizenship, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Civics and citizenship, Asylum Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General