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Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty provides original insights into how uncertainty shapes social practice, identity and belonging in the context of irregular migration from Vietnam to Russia. The study speaks to various debates in migration and mobility studies -- particularly those focused on brokerage networks, the political economy of sexuality, and social belonging -- deepening our knowledge of how the core social values and cultural logics that underpin Vietnamese personhood are challenged and reconstituted by the ethos of the market economy. This book sheds important light on processes of mobility and social change in post-socialist societies that continue to grapple with yawning chasms between old and new ways of life, the local and the global, policy and practice, and obsolete governance techniques and rapidly changing socio-economic realities.

Transit migration, comprising mixed flows of refugees and labour, is widely considered a concern and even security threat. However, the concept is as vague and blurred as it is politicised. This volume offers evidence-based, comprehensive coverage of the entire belt of countries in the neighbourhood of the EU, ranging from Russia to Morocco. Transit migration is critically analyzed from the perspective of sending, transit and receiving countries, offering new insights into refugee and irregular migration flows, transnational migration networks and overlapping migration systems.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Prologue -- 2. Introduction to the Research Process -- 2.1 Thinking with the Embodied Mind -- 2.2 My Question -- 2.2.1 Breathing Bodies -- 2.3 Who Am I to Ask? -- 2.3.1 My many selves -- 2.3.2 The dizzying dance -- 2.3.4 The Hybrid -- 2.3.3 The Rooted Wings -- 2.4 Literature Review: Mapping the Conversation -- 2.4.1 Scales of Home: Geographical Perspectives -- 2.4.2 Refugees and Nations: Beyond Hospitality -- 2.4.3 Selves and Others: Social Psychologies of Individualism -- 2.4.4 Being and Becoming: Western Philosophical Roots -- 2.4.5 Politics of Touch: Ethics from the body -- 2.4.6 Body as home: Somatic Perspectives -- 2.4.7 Interbeing: Ecological Somatics and Spiritual Ecologies -- 2.4.8 Many Peaces: Transrational Perspectives -- 2.5 Methods to my Madness -- 2.5.1 Feminist Situations -- 2.5.2 Trans-rational Inquiry -- 2.5.3 Scales of Imagination -- 2.5.4 Methods -- 2.6 Getting Oriented: A Brief Overview of What Is to Come -- 3. The Borders of Belonging: Mapping the Moment -- 3.1 Refugees and the Crisis of Home -- 3.1.1 Nation as Home -- 3.1.2 Identity Crisis -- 3.1.3 Rupture of Categories -- 3.1.4 The Refugee -- 3.1.5 Integration -- 3.2 The Era of Homelessness -- 3.2.1 The Postmodern Condition: Strangers in the Universe -- 3.2.2 Orientation and Realization -- 3.2.3 A Tolerance for Contradictions -- 3.2.4 Reflections on the Problem -- 4. The Question of Roots: Tracing a History of Thought -- 4.1 Into the Abyss -- 4.1.1 Nearness -- 4.1.2 The Homeless Spirit -- 4.1.3 Being-in-the-world -- 4.2 Blut und Boden -- 4.2.1 The Wandering Jew -- 4.3 Philosophy Uprooted -- 4.3.1 Pagan roots -- 4.3.2 No homecoming -- 4.3.3 Other Others -- 4.3.4 Dispossession -- 5. The Politics of Shaping Home -- 5.1 The Power of Metaphors -- 5.2 Re-perceiving Our Selves -- 5.2.1 Body as Territory.

This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women's lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth century expressed themselves in the public eye, whether through writings, in photographs, or in political and cultural life. Their remarkable stories are often inspiring and sometimes tragic and serve to demonstrate the complexities of navigating female lives in the face of racial politics and imposed categories of gender, culture, and class. Historians of transnational Chinese migration have come to recognize Australia as a crucial site within the 'Cantonese Pacific', and this collection provides a new layer of gendered comparison, connecting women's experiences in Australia with those in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.

This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether "migration crisis" is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region. Chapters in this contributed volume investigate the crisis-migration nexus in seven Latin American countries Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay by discussing different human mobility phenomena, such as the migrant caravans that departed from Central America bound to Mexico and the United States; the Nicaraguan exodus caused by the political crisis in the country; the perception of Venezuelan migrants in Colombias media; the presence of Caribbean migrants in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives from Latin America will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists interested in migration studies, as well as to policy makers and civil society organizations. This book offers a fresh look at the way we conceive, represent, and think about the relationship between crisis and human mobility. As the volumes contributions show, a critical examination of the notion of crisis is a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the plight of present-day migrants worldwide.

The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Why Refugee Genres? Refugee Representation and Cultural Form -- Defining Refugee Genres -- Genre Histories of Human Rights -- Migrant Performance and Media -- Overview of Chapters -- References -- Part I: Life Writing: Memoir, Comics, Poetry -- Chapter 2: "How Do we Survive the Memory of So Much Waiting?": Reconfiguring Empathy in Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee -- The Pain of Others -- The Untranslatable Element -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Family Journeys: Refugee Histories in Vietnamese American Graphic Memoirs -- Refugee Graphic Memoir -- Post-Vietnam War Memories and Refugee Comics -- Refugee History and Postmemory in G.B. Tran's Vietnamerica -- Feminist Refugee Autobiography in Thi Bui's the Best we Could Do -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Insular Metaphors: Representations of Cyprus in Mediterranean Refugee Literatures after the 1980s -- Tayeb Salih: Cyprus and Insularity -- Suad Amiry: Cyprus as a Bridge -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Performance and Documentary Media -- Chapter 5: Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin): Refugee Experience in the Songs of the Zollhausboys -- Home Is Goose Bumps (on a Second Skin) -- Part One: Home and Being at Home When One Leaves Home -- Moving Away and Arriving by Reinhabiting Space -- Part Two: For me, Actually, It Was Not That Hard -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Song Lyrics -- Kobani (Written by Ismaeel Foustok and Pago Balke) -- Aleppo (Written by Pago Balke and Ismaeel Foustok) -- Regen Am Fenster (Written by Azad Kour) -- Werder-Jacke (Written by Azad Kour) -- Held (Written by Ismaeel Foustok) -- References -- Chapter 6: Migrant and Radical: Political Migrant Theatre and Activism in Migrations: Harbour Europe -- Introduction -- 'Stranger danger' and Theatres of Migration.

1. "New migrants" from the PRC and the transformation of Chinese media : the case of Cambodia / Nyiri Pal -- 2. The conundrum of the "honorary whites" : media and being Chinese in South Africa / Wanning Sun -- 3. An overseas orthodoxy? : shifting toward pro-PRC media in Chinese-speaking Brazil / Josh Stenberg -- 4. Bridge or barrier : migration, media, and the sojourner mentality in Chinese communities in Italy and Spain / Tian Gong -- 5. Unique past and common future : Chinese immigrants and Chinese-language media in France / Nan Dai -- 6. Politics of homeland : hegemonic discourses of the intervening homeland in Chinese diasporic newspapers in the Netherlands / Cindy Cheung-Kwan Chong -- 7. The Chinese diaspora, motherland, and "June fourth" : a discourse analysis of the BBC Chinese "have your say" forum, 2009-13 / Jingrong Tong -- 8. Geo-ethnic storytelling : Chinese-language television in Canada / Shuyu Kong -- 9. Cyber China and evolving transnational identities : the case of New Zealand / Manying Ip and Hang Yin -- 10. Provisional business migrants to western Australia, social media, and conditional belonging / Susan Leong -- 11. Xin Yimin : "new" Chinese migration and new media in a Trinidadian town / Jolynna Sinanan.