Experiencing Ruptures in Migration – The Ordinary and Unexpected Journeys of Global Migrants
About this ebook
This book presents itineraries, social logics of mobility; the routes become the analysts. If statistics record regularities, the personal approach captures specificities that produce meaning and contribute to a reinterpretation of current forms of mobility.
“The superb collection of ethnographies that the reader will find in the pages to follow provide yet further insight into the ways in which movement across state borders represents a creative accomplishment. With cases selected from around the world – the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe – the chapter in this book demonstrate that migration is undertaken not only against states and their bureaucracies, but in tension with and possibly in opposition to migrants’ closest associates – precisely the people whom social capital theory paints as the font of the resources that make migration possible. ”
– Roger Waldinger, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Contents
Foreword – Roger Waldinger
Introduction – Víctor Zúñiga, Kamel Doraï, Delphine Mercier, and Michel Peraldi
Part One: Migrant Families and Their Re-configuration
Chinese Migrant Women Creating Meaningful Lives Despite Vulnerable Statuses – Hélène Le Bail
Conflict and Migration from Iraq: Building a Life in Exile Amid the Twists and Turns of a Dramatic History – Cyril Roussel
From Family Dispersion to Asylum-Seeking: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and Syria – Kamel Doraï
Part Two: Children’s Movements Across Borders
A left-behind child from El Alto. Protection Strategies and Redefinition of Kinship Ties for the Children of Migrant Women in Bolivia – Robin Cavagnoud
Journey to the Ordinary “Integration” of an Undocumented Moroccan Migrant in France – Mustapha El Miri
Children Circulating Between the United States and Mexico – Víctor Zúñiga and Betsabé Román-González
Part Three: From Adventure to Waiting: Emancipation of Restricted Trajectories
Life While Waiting: Experiencing the Asylum Application in France – Carolina Kobelinsky
A Family Resemblance: Migration, Work and Loyalty – Frédéric Décosse
‘Suzana’s choices’ Working in the maquiladoras, migrating to survive and living transnationally – Delphine Mercier
Part Four: From Expatriate to Migrant?
From “Expats” to migrants: Mano’s worlds in Marrakesh – Michel Peraldi
The Aeronautical Engineer in Flight: Turbulence and the Capacity for Agency Across Borders – Alfredo Hualde
Being a Doctor Over Here or Over There Collective action: the foundation of the capacity for agency in the migratory process? – Ariel Mendez
Conclusion: Uncertainty, Anticipated – Deborah A. Boehm
About the author
Delphine MERCIER is a sociologist (CNRS Research Director) at the Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology) in Aix-en-Provence. Her areas of research are migration and international labur markets in the global South, globalization, free industrial trade zones in Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, international management systems (standards) and local governance in the face of environmental and global issues.
Víctor ZÚÑIGA is a Professor of Sociology at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico. He is a tier-3 (highest level) member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. He holds a PhD in the sociology of education from Université de Paris VIII-Vincennes. He is co-editor (2005, with Rubén Hernández-León) of New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States, New York: Russell Sage Foundation; and co-authored (2019 with Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo) Niñas y niños en la migración de Estados Unidos a Mëxico: la generación 0.5, México, El Colegio de México.
Kamel DORAÏ is a researcher at the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research). He has been based at the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO) in Amman, Jordan, since September 2014. He has been conducting research in Lebanon, Syria, and Sweden since 1996 on different refugee groups, collecting biographies, migration trajectories, and stories of urban mobility. He was based in the IFPO in Damascus (Syria) from 2006 to 2010. His work focuses mainly on asylum and refugees in the Middle East, new migrations and geopolitical restructuring in the Middle East, and migration and transnational practices within the Palestinian Diaspora. The comparative study of refugees residing inside and outside of camps as well as the analysis of their migratory experience and spatial practices provide an account of the refugees’ socio-spatial dynamics in exile and of relations between the camps and their urban environment.
Mustapha EL MIRI is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aix-Marseille University. His latest research revolves around migrations and their social effects in the Mediterranean basin. His most recent studies in the same field analyze the social qualification of migrants in their home countries undocumented migrants’ beginning and integration modes, and the transformation of relationships at the border and during migration in transnational areas that are part of economic globalization (in the Hispano-Moroccan case).
Michel PERALDI is a sociologist and anthropologist with the IRISS/CNRS/EHESS in Paris, where his work focuses on cities and migratory circulation, the emergence of transnational worlds in the heart of local society, and the economic, informal, criminal or legal forms of this emergence. He has also studied the “suitcase trade” and the loci of informal trade that represent its logistical “platforms”: Tangier, Marseilles, Istanbul, and Naples. He has lived in Morocco for 10 years, where he has done ethnographic studies on sub-Saharan migration and a three-year study on Europeans who give their lives the shape of a migration journey.
