Shelter on the Journey

Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration

Priscilla Solano (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

219 Seiten

2024
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-2152-4 (ISBN)

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Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people.

Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the activity in three of the nearly 100 shelters along a unique humanitarian trail that many Central Americans take to reach the United States. She outlines the constraints faced by these sites and their potential to create social transformation and considers how and why migration security is currently framed and managed as both a criminal and humanitarian issue.

Shelter on the Journey explores the politics of the shelters, their social world, and the dynamics of charity and solidarity, as well as the need for humanitarian assistance and advocacy for dignified and free transit migration.

Priscilla Solano is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University in Sweden.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2024
Vorwort	Douglas Massey
Zusatzinfo	4
Verlagsort	Philadelphia PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4399-2152-0 / 1439921520
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-2152-4 / 9781439921524
Zustand	Neuware