Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion
Channel: Faculty of Public Affairs - Carleton University
Date: 2023-12-08

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Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion makes an argument for placing vehicles and routes at the centre of our thinking about the politics of borders and migration.

Whether the Komagatu Maru in the port of Vancouver in 1914, the deportation trains which crisscrossed the US in the 1920s, the vans that ferry migrant workers to and from Indonesia’s international airports, or the small boats on which migrants risk their lives traversing the Mediterranean, the book examines how vehicles are frequently central both as symbols and material objects to struggles about justice, mobility, and belonging. Yet often they are missing from migration scholarship.

Viapolitics makes these vehicles front and centre in our debates, allowing for new ways of approaching migration.