Johan Heinsen is Associate Professor at the research group Conflict, Coercion and Authority in History (CCA) at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University. He works on labor coercion and punishment across the early modern world. He is vice-chair of the COST-action Worlds of Related Coercions in Work. Martin Bak Jørgensen is Associate Professor at the Department for Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works within sociology and political geography. He has published Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe (Palgrave, 2019) with Óscar García Agustín. Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Ph.D. in International History. His research explores how international peacekeeping within the context of an international system significantly influenced by multiple imperial regimes is linked to inequality and insecurity.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement. An IntroductionJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen2 Migrants’ Entrapment in a ‘State of Expectancy’: Patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, GreeceApostolos Kapsalis, Konstantinos Floros and Martin Bak Jørgensen3 Constructing Immobility: Border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the AegeanVasileios Spyridon Vlassis4 “Cyprus Is a Big Prison”: Reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border SocietyLeandros Fischer5 “When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left”: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration CorridorsKarin Krifors6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: Labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural SectorSusi Meret and Irina Aguiari7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: The Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates Abdulkadir Osman Farah8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Middle East before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957–1967Martin Ottovay Jørgensen9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920–1960Sven Van Melkebeke10 Life on the Run: Coercive Geographies in Denmark–Norway, 1600–1850Johan Heinsen11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative ContextJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay JørgensenIndex

Johan Heinsen is Associate Professor at the research group Conflict, Coercion and Authority in History (CCA) at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University. He works on labor coercion and punishment across the early modern world. He is vice-chair of the COST-action Worlds of Related Coercions in Work. Martin Bak Jørgensen is Associate Professor at the Department for Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works within sociology and political geography. He has published Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe (Palgrave, 2019) with Óscar García Agustín. Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Ph.D. in International History. His research explores how international peacekeeping within the context of an international system significantly influenced by multiple imperial regimes is linked to inequality and insecurity.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement. An IntroductionJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen2 Migrants’ Entrapment in a ‘State of Expectancy’: Patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, GreeceApostolos Kapsalis, Konstantinos Floros and Martin Bak Jørgensen3 Constructing Immobility: Border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the AegeanVasileios Spyridon Vlassis4 “Cyprus Is a Big Prison”: Reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border SocietyLeandros Fischer5 “When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left”: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration CorridorsKarin Krifors6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: Labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural SectorSusi Meret and Irina Aguiari7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: The Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates Abdulkadir Osman Farah8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Middle East before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957–1967Martin Ottovay Jørgensen9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920–1960Sven Van Melkebeke10 Life on the Run: Coercive Geographies in Denmark–Norway, 1600–1850Johan Heinsen11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative ContextJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay JørgensenIndex

Johan Heinsen is Associate Professor at the research group Conflict, Coercion and Authority in History (CCA) at the Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University. He works on labor coercion and punishment across the early modern world. He is vice-chair of the COST-action Worlds of Related Coercions in Work. Martin Bak Jørgensen is Associate Professor at the Department for Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works within sociology and political geography. He has published Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe (Palgrave, 2019) with Óscar García Agustín. Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Ph.D. in International History. His research explores how international peacekeeping within the context of an international system significantly influenced by multiple imperial regimes is linked to inequality and insecurity.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement. An IntroductionJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen2 Migrants’ Entrapment in a ‘State of Expectancy’: Patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, GreeceApostolos Kapsalis, Konstantinos Floros and Martin Bak Jørgensen3 Constructing Immobility: Border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the AegeanVasileios Spyridon Vlassis4 “Cyprus Is a Big Prison”: Reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border SocietyLeandros Fischer5 “When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left”: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration CorridorsKarin Krifors6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: Labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural SectorSusi Meret and Irina Aguiari7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: The Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates Abdulkadir Osman Farah8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Middle East before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957–1967Martin Ottovay Jørgensen9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920–1960Sven Van Melkebeke10 Life on the Run: Coercive Geographies in Denmark–Norway, 1600–1850Johan Heinsen11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative ContextJohan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay JørgensenIndex