Lives in Transit
Lives in Transit Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. At the same time, it reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity and activism…
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Lives in Transit
Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. At the same time, it reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity and activism that have emerged along transit routes over the past decade. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites, the book examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and lives become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others.
Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers and local residents, Vogt encourages us to reimagine transit as both a site of violence and precarity as well as social struggle and