Crossing Borders

ISBN-13: 9780367234041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Mimi Sheller; Kevin Hannam

Opis

This book examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating. It was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.

Spis treści

1. Learning Mobility Challenging Borders: Cross-border Experiences of eastern European Immigrants in Spain   2. Polish Graduates and British Citizenship: Amplification of the Potential Mobility Dynamics beyond Europe   3. Mobile neighbouring   4. Mobility Justice in the Context of Disaster   5. The Institutionalization of Mobility: Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods   6. Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move   7. Survival Mobilities: Tactics, Legality and Mobility of Undocumented Borderland Citizens in India and Bangladesh

O autorze

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research & Policy at Drexel University, Philadelphia. She is President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility and founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities. Her books include Aluminum Dreams; Citizenship from Below; Consuming the Caribbean; The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities; Mobility and Locative Media; Tourism Mobilities; and Mobile Technologies of the City.　

Kevin Hannam is Professor of Tourism Mobilities at Edinburgh Napier University, UK and research affiliate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a founding co-editor of the journals Mobilities and Applied Mobilities (Routledge); co-author of Understanding Tourism (Sage) and Tourism and India (Routledge); and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, Moral Encounters in Tourism (Ashgate) and Event Mobilities (Routledge).