Watch the virtual book discussion of "Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South", (AUC Press, 2024), a rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South.

The discussion included book editors Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García, with contributor Kudakwashe Vanyoro and in conversation with discussant Sujata Ramachandran.

About the book:
By the end of 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 100 million, the highest figure since the Second World War. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Taliban political takeover in Afghanistan exacerbated an already protracted global refugee situation, but climate-related events also played a part in forcing millions of people to leave their homes in search of more habitable living areas.

Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migrant in the Global South provides fresh understandings of mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration across the Global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Moving away from North–South, East–West binaries and challenging the conception that migratory movements are primarily unidirectional—from South to North—it explores how state policies, migrants’ trajectories, nationalism and discrimination, and art and knowledge production unfold in places as widespread as Egypt, Turkey, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Haiti.

Seventeen academics, activists, and artists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, and international relations reveal the diverse narratives, migration patterns, forms of agency, and laws that make up the complex reality of South–South migration, offering vital new pathways for research in migration studies today.


You can find "Making Routes" in major bookstores and online booksellers worldwide, and as an e-Book, or through these links:

North America: bit.ly/MakingRoutesNA

UK: bit.ly/MakingRoutesUK

Egypt: bit.ly/MakingRoutesEG

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