Rethinking Migration : Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race / Angelo Martins Junior, Nariman Massoumi, Brendan Smith, Florian Scheding, Holly Rooke, Juan Zhang, Laurence Publicover, Lucy Donkin, Manoj Dias-Abey, and María Paula Escobar Tello

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking Migration – Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race -- Multiple Mobilities -- Introduction -- Mobile People and Places in Premodern Europe -- The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 1601–17: A Non-Human and Unheroic History -- Cows on the Move: The Im(Material) Politics of Animal Passports and the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance -- Productive Borders -- Introduction -- Migrants and Borders in the Medieval English World -- The Aliens Order 1920, the ‘Work Permit’ and the Making of the National Labour Market -- The Production and Negotiation of the ‘Good’ and the ‘Bad’ Migrant -- Transformative Representations -- Introduction -- Why Can’t Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatized Returns in Pandemic Times -- The Family Idyll, Exclusion and Ideology in Persepolis -- Sounds across Borders and the Ukraine War -- Beyond Migrants and Migration -- Introduction -- Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites -- Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organizing and Transnational Campaigning Past and Future -- Index

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Humans have always moved, but across the world 'migration' has become a major policy, political and media concern. How can we understand human movement without positioning 'the migrant' as a problem? This interdisciplinary collection rethinks migration and movement. It explores mobility beyond the human and across time, from the movement of soil in the Middle Ages to contemporary cow passports. It also examines the histories of international borders and how they are intertwined with the politics of race and nation. The book illustrates that conceptually based, critical and creative thinking is as important for practice as it is for theory and can help us understand and respond to migration as a force that connects rather than divides.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.