(Un)Settling Place

Nanneke Winters is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, which is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Population, Space and Place, International Migration Review, and the Journal of Latin American Studies. Before joining ISS, she held research positions in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University.

“This volume breaks from the usual. Winters, Drotbohm, and Guevara González have assembled an excellent collection of cutting-edge contributions that cast new light on the meanings of place and place-making. With rich insights, the collection reveals how people on the move transform the “out-of-the-way places” they traverse in their journeys, even if when they stay only temporarily. The book offers much-needed clarity and insight into the multiple dimensions of (im)mobility that is sure to inspire future research. Highly recommended!” • Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Unsettling Place along and out of the Way—An IntroductionHeike Drotbohm and Nanneke WintersChapter 1. Etched into Place: Communities of Knowledge, Memory, and History Making along Migrant TrajectoriesWendy A. VogtChapter 2. Emplacing Arrivals: The Infrastructural Accommodation of Migratory Difference in Urban West AfricaMichael StasikChapter 3. Gym Mobilities: Shaping Bodies and Lifting Community at the Edges of San SalvadorNoelle BrigdenChapter 4. A Place in the Making: Sheltering Unaccompanied Minors and the Limits of a “Safe Haven”Friederike EichnerChapter 5. Strategic Placemaking in US Immigration Courts: The Role of Migration Attorneys, Expert Witnesses and Place Narratives in Asylum CasesLirio Gutiérrez RiveraChapter 6. Hesitant Place-Making: Dwellings and Avoidances in a Popular Mall in ArgentinaFranziska ReiffenChapter 7. Survival and Deferred Place-Making at Sea: Onboard Socialities of Vietnamese and Rohingya BoatpeopleAntje Missbach and Gerhard HoffstaedterChapter 8. Place Acrobatics: Re-Envisioning Mobility-Place Relations along Migrant TrajectoriesJoris Schapendonk and Tine DavidsChapter 9. The Political Ecology of Displaced PlacemakingGeorgina RamsayAfterword: About Etchings, Place Acrobatics and Spatial Fixes—Rethinking the Relationship between Place, Marginality and MobilityAnnika LemsIndex