Journey Without End

Migration from the Global South Through the Americas

De: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran

Narrado por: Zac Aleman

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.

The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster-riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal, to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darien Gap—the gateway from South to Central America.

This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's Darien Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

©2022 Vanderbilt University Press (P)2023 Tantor

A contemporary ethnography for your classes

As a trained ethnographer and cultural anthropologist who is always looking for recent and compelling ethnographies for the classroom, I am thrilled to have found this book. Academics already know the basics of the content, but the way that these authors capture the lives and travels of these migrants is priceless. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what it is like for migrants making there way (or trying to make their way) to the US.