Migration, Mobilities and the Arab Spring
Subtitle: Spaces of Refugee Flight in the Eastern Mediterranean
Publisher: Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781785361944
Subjects: Refugees; Asia, emigration and immigration; Africa, emigration and immigration
Description: Confronting questions of globalization, mobilities and space in the Mediterranean, and more specifically in the eastern Mediterranean, this book introduces a new type of complexity and ambiguity to the study of the global. In this theoretical frame an increasingly urban articulation of global logics and struggles, and an escalating use of urban space to make political claims, not only by citizens but also by foreigners, can be found. By emphasizing the interplay between global, regional and local phenomena, the book examines new forms and conditions, such as the transformation of borders, the reconfiguration of transnational communities, the agency of transnational families, new mobilities and diasporas, and transnational networks of humanitarian response.--