| The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility Contributor(s): Ossman, Susan (Editor), Abouhouraira, Leila (Contribution by), Badry, Fatima (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739117084 ISBN-13: 9780739117088 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $126.72 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: This book explores the relationship of mobility to subjectivity, identity to place by exploring the lives of people on the move. Authors' draw on research among nomads, immigrants and serial migrants and question their own trajectories. Their comments on cosmopolitanism, ethnicity and religion challenge conventional wisdom from concrete but ungrounded perspectives. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 304.8 |
| LCCN: 2006030168 |
| Series: Program in Migration and Refugee Studies (Harcback) |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.45" W x 9.11" (1.06 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this shared space that they draw on personal stories, fieldwork, and literary and linguistic analysis to provide a critical, socially reflexive response to the conceptions of culture, identity, and mobility that animate debates on migration and cosmopolitanism. On the trail of the Bedouin or Europe's new nomads and of Zaccarias Moussaoui Places We Share explores the relationship of mobility to subjectivity, and how physically moving can be a way of escaping the stigma of being an immigrant. Reading Rushdie, listening to Moroccan women converse in the UAE, or examining how the experience of serial migration can shape comparative ethnography we become more aware of how moving pushes us up against the limits of global experience. These limits must be recognized. They can be positively embraced to develop new ways of conceiving of ourselves, the world and our connections to others. |