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Can I read Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present on EtoBox?
Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present by Eleanor Paynter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present about?
Emergency in Transit responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the global north. This capacious, interdisciplinary study reformulates Europe's so-called "migrant crisis" from a sudden disaster to a site of contested witnessing, where competing narratives threaten, uphold, or reimagine migrant rights. Focusing on Italy, a crucial port of arrival, Eleanor Paynter draws together testimonials from ethnographic research--alongside literature, film, and visual art--to interrogate the colonial, racial logics that inform emergency responses to migration. She also examines the media, discourses, policies, and practices that shape lived experiences of migration well beyond international borders. -Centering the witnessing of Black Africans in Italy, Emergency in Transit reveals how this emergency apparatus operates and posits a vision of mobility that refutes the notions of crisis so often imposed on those who cross the Mediterranean Sea.
Who reads Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eleanor Paynter
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520402928
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Cultural, Social_sciences