Class, Contention, and a World in Motion / / ed. by Winnie Lem, Pauline Gardiner Barber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abrahamer Rothstein, Frances,; France Labrecque, Marie,; Gardiner Barber, Pauline,; Giles, Wenona,; Heyman, Josiah,; Leach, Belinda,; Lem, Winnie,; Narotzky, Susana,; Però, Davide,; Zontini, Elisabetta,
• HerausgeberIn: Barber, Pauline Gardiner,; Lem, Winnie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, contributors question how and why particular forms of political struggle and collective action may, or indeed may not, be carried forward in the context of geographic and social border crossings. In doing so, they bring the dynamic relationship between class, gender, and culture to the forefront in each distinctive migration setting.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I . Configurations of Class -- 1. Livelihood and Afghan Refugee Workers in Iran -- 2. New Mexican Migrants in a New Age: Globalization, Networks, and Gender in Rural Mexico -- 3. The State and Mobile People at the US-Mexico Border -- Part II. Migrants and Mobilization -- 4. Political Engagement and Latin Americans in the UK -- 5. Gender and Resisting Fortress Europe in Italy and Spain -- 6. Gender, History, and Political Activism in Spain -- 7. Cell Phones, Politics, and the Philippine Labor Diaspora -- Part III. Complicity and Compliance -- 8. Making Neoliberal Citizens in Urban France -- 9. A Clash of Histories in Canada’s Auto Industry -- 10. Mexican Worker Demobilization and the Global Economy -- List of Contributors -- Index