Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas
Andrew Nelson · Rob Curran
May 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Zac Aleman
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Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"-African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes a narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster-riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal, to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darien Gap-the gateway from South to Central America. This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks-Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's Darien Gap, and a Mexican border town-into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial, gender, and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.
About the author
Andrew Nelson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas.
Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones Newswires and the Dallas Morning News.
Zac Aleman is a narrator from Jacksonville, Florida. He speaks English and Spanish natively and has a great ear for dialects and accents. When he's not narrating in his professional home studio, you can find him spending time with his family or relaxing with an audiobook.
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