Edited by Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber
Summary
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Attention is directed to the relationship between political mobilization and the class location of migrants who are implicated in processes of global change. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the