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Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on
the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border
control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely
curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent
against racialized and gendered "Others". Business elites traverse
the fast-track lines to financial hubs and tourists discover new
destinations. Ageing societies need people from abroad to perform
care work. Domestic workers carve out nearer and further paths to
reach employment, often leaving their family members behind in need
of care. This book examines global mobilities from gendered
perspectives, asking how gender together with race/ethnicity,
social class, nationality and sexuality shape globally mobile
lives. By developing analysis that cuts through economic
structures, policies and individuals enacting agency, the book
demonstrates how intersectional feminist analysis helps to
comprehend uneven mobilities. Through multidisciplinary angle the
book draws examples from different parts of the world and refuses
to provide easy answers. Calling for students, scholars and general
readers alike, the book invites the reader to imagine and relate to
the world in manifold ways.
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for
obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do
not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers
cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant
nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal
resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that
are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist
the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form
the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more
than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes
to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility
and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political
resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is
both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to
reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community
and belonging..
Choreographies of Resistance examines bodies and their capacity for
obstructive and resistant action in places and spaces where we do
not expect to see it. Drawing on empirical research that considers
cases on asylum seekers, beggars, undocumented migrants and migrant
nurses, the book attests to the scope and diversity of corporeal
resistance in the realm of politics. It is shown that bodies that
are not assumed to have political agency can obstruct and resist
the smooth functioning of disciplinary practices that nowadays form
the core of migration policies. It is argued that the body is more
than a mere target of politics. In so doing, the book contributes
to the study of the political significance of movement, mobility
and the nonverbal. The body opens up a space of political
resistance and action. The resistant body poses a challenge that is
both praxical and philosophical: it ultimately invites us to
reconsider the meanings and content of political space, community
and belonging..
Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on
the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border
control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely
curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent
against racialized and gendered "Others". Business elites traverse
the fast-track lines to financial hubs and tourists discover new
destinations. Ageing societies need people from abroad to perform
care work. Domestic workers carve out nearer and further paths to
reach employment, often leaving their family members behind in need
of care. This book examines global mobilities from gendered
perspectives, asking how gender together with race/ethnicity,
social class, nationality and sexuality shape globally mobile
lives. By developing analysis that cuts through economic
structures, policies and individuals enacting agency, the book
demonstrates how intersectional feminist analysis helps to
comprehend uneven mobilities. Through multidisciplinary angle the
book draws examples from different parts of the world and refuses
to provide easy answers. Calling for students, scholars and general
readers alike, the book invites the reader to imagine and relate to
the world in manifold ways.
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