Underground Europe : Along Migrant Routes

Federico Rahola

ISBN 10: 303116153X / ISBN 13: 9783031161537

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing, 2023

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a kind of historical travelogue tracing the remnants of the 19th-century Underground Railroad in the US and Canada, including its legacies and unfulfilled heritage. It then shifts to the political present by ethnographically sketching a series of different border instances and situations, both external and within the EU space (Ventimiglia, Athens, Paris, Calais, Ceuta and Melilla, Patras, Pozzallo). Focusing on the violent harshening of local border regimes, this book nonetheless suggests a different picture, one conceived as the dynamic effect of both migrants autonomy and of the solidarity provided by local and international groups. Focusing on these specific and contested situations, it is possible to reverse the image of a main borderland into one of a space crisscrossed by many routes and passages. Reading those experiences through the historical lens of the US antebellum Underground Railroad, the book suggests the idea of an analogous 'Underground Europe'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Underground Europe : Along Migrant Routes
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303116153X
• ISBN 13: 9783031161537
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 19D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 446 grams

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Synopsis

This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a kind of historical travelogue tracing the remnants of the 19th-century Underground Railroad in the US and Canada, including its legacies and unfulfilled heritage. It then shifts to the political present by ethnographically sketching a series of different border instances and situations, both external and within the EU space (Ventimiglia, Athens, Paris, Calais, Ceuta and Melilla, Patras, Pozzallo). Focusing on the violent harshening of local border regimes, this book nonetheless suggests a different picture, one conceived as the dynamic effect of both migrants autonomy and of the solidarity provided by local and international groups. Focusing on these specific and contested situations, it is possible to reverse the imageof a main borderland into one of a space crisscrossed by many routes and passages. Reading those experiences through the historical lens of the US antebellum Underground Railroad, the book suggests the idea of an analogous "Underground Europe".

About the Author

Luca Queirolo Palmas is Professor of Sociology of Migration at Genoa University, Italy, and Co-editor of the journal Mondi Migranti. 

Federico Rahola is Professor of Sociology of Culture at Genoa University, Italy, and member of the editorial board of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa.

They are both principal and senior investigators in the European Research Council project SOLROUTES and founders of the research collective Laboratorio di Sociologia Visuale.