... mass migration. The chapter also analyzes Deepa Mehta’s 1998 contemporary film Earth, which offers haunting images of the “death train.” Manto Saadat Hasan Partition Radcliffe Cyril violence Bhasin Kamla Butalia Urvashi Menon Ritu Sikhs visual culture Bourke White Margaret...

...This chapter examines the symbolic logic of official nationalism and its metaphoric use of infrastructural development. It considers the tropes of migration and transportation in Taiwanese New Cinema and the early work of Hou Hsiao-Hsien. While poetry was the most relevant medium for reinscriptions...

.... It analyzes the aesthetics of transborder infrastructure in order to interpret broader discrepancies in global migration regimes in the political and economic framework of the Pearl River Delta. airport infrastructure airport megaprojects Andreu Paul Castells Manuel elites Foster Norman globalization...

...This introductory chapter explores the meaning of “invisibility” in the African diaspora—more specifically, it is a meditation on the Senegalese migration to Italy and the prejudices encountered therein. The journey illustrates the problems of displacement—as Senegalese youth escape the economic...

...This concluding chapter attempts to frame the rapid and troubling marginalization of Filipino youths as enveloped within a more expansive set of political, economic, social, and affective relations. Migration and transnationalism, with respect to the Filipino diaspora, are category mistakes...

... within a dynamic and uneven circuit of black internationalism. In offering a more comprehensive vision of the New Negro experience, it elucidates what we identify as a global modernity by focusing on the relationship between industry and empire, migration and social movements, and cultural renaissance...

...This chapter examines the daily encounters of the state with undocumented migrants. By tracing these encounters between the Canadian government and migrants smuggled from China, the chapter illustrates the attempts by nation-states to order human migration, which may be “spontaneous” and for which...

... counsel ethnography human smuggling bureaucracy civil servants migration immigration policy border policing I began researchin 2000, during the summer following the interceptions, when everyone in the office anticipated the arrival of more boats. The months following the marine arrivals...

...This chapter summarizes the book’s main themes. It argues that states of migration are capitalizing on crises to advance enforcement agendas that exclude those in search of refuge. Whether viewed from the outside in or the inside out, the state is imagined, enacted, and encountered in our daily...

... ultimately gave him an eagle eye on the topic of birds. The most important being the spring migration of the Yellow-rumpled Warbler which he saw on 15 April of 1874. In his journal, Roberts noted that that he noticed for the first time a vast horde of small birds in every large tree. During this period...

... Alexander photographs and photography blackness citizenship and “Greenville Levee Blues” song Alice Pearson migrations African American environmental disasters as cause of Pearson Alice plantations and planters holding African American laborers to land Vicksburg Mississippi disease in levee and Red...

... Richard Wright’s father Wright Richard writings of Black Boy Great Migration industries lynchings Uncle Tom’s Children short story collection Richard Wright American Red Cross relief camps Cullen Countee death preferable to Red Cross relief camps displaced people displacement blues chronicling...

...Complicating longstanding equations of literacy and assimilation, this chapter shows that Azoreans and Brazilians, for reasons linked to their unique migration and education histories, needed both literacy and papers to attain the social mobility they came to the U.S. to pursue. education...

...Chapter three examines how the movement of organisms has become a key site of study facilitated through sensors. Migration-tracking sensors provide new data about the movement of organisms, while also indicating the distinct environments and environmental relations in and through which organisms...

... implications on the prospect for justice an inclusion in the 21^st century; well-intentioned environmentalist efforts to “green sovereignty” are actually serving to reinforce exclusionary forms of political community.It argues that attention to the realities of transnational migration could provide...

...The global extent and scale of Philippine migration is permitted by the transnational bureaucracy reinforced by the Philippine government as a means of mobilizing migrants for export. The government agencies responsible for facilitating out-migration carry out the function of “authorization...

...This chapter examines how the Philippine government works to open up markets for Philippine workers. Migration officials closely monitor the economic and political trends and transformations created by neoliberal globalization, and subsequently attempt to exploit potential opportunities to export...

...This chapter discusses how the state has reconstructed meanings of nationalism and national belonging with respect to overseas migration, resulting in the so-called migrant citizenship. It examines laws and other legal-juridical instruments to track shifts in citizenship, in addition...

...This concluding chapter discusses the key insights of this research on the Philippine state’s international migration within the context of globalization. It characterizes developing forms of labor brokerage outside the Philippines, along with the alternative meanings of rights and membership...