FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Event
Book launch: Shelter on the Journey

Welcome to a book launch!

Shelter on the Journey
Humanitarianism, human rights, and migration

Author

Priscilla Solano, Lecturer, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, also associated to MIM.

Discussant

Noelle Brigden, Associate Professor, University of Marquette.

Abstract

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people. Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the activity in three of the nearly 100 shelters along a unique humanitarian trail that many Central Americans take to reach the United States. She outlines the constraints faced by these sites and their potential to create social transformation and considers how and why migration security is currently framed and managed as both a criminal and humanitarian issue.

Joint GP and Migration seminar, followed by a mingle.

Hybrid seminar

Storm (Orkanen) A122, Nordenskiöldsgatan 10, or zoom

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/67285897042
Meeting ID: 672 8589 7042