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LivesinTransit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Lives in Transit
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Circulations of Violence
- 2. The Arterial Border
- 3. The Migrant Industry
- 4. Embodied Mobilities
- 5. Intimate Crossings
- 6. (In)Security and Safety
- 7. Constellations of Care
- Conclusion: The Unforgotten
- Notes
- References
- Index