Making Routes

Gerda Heck is assistant professor of sociology at the Department of Sociology, Egyptology, and Anthropology, and at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.Eda Sevinin is an independent researcher. She received her PhD in 2022 from Central European University, Department of International Relations.Elena Habersky is a research manager at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.Carlos Sandoval-García is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica.Ibrahim Awad is director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsForeword by Ibrahim AwadIntroductionNavigating Knowledge Regimes in Various National Contexts1. On the Threshold: Conducting Research About Refugees in EgyptSara Sadek2. Researching Migration on the African Continent: Reflecting on Power, Location, and Research Partnership Duduzile Ndlovu and Kudakwashe Vanyoro 3. Memorial Artwork of Deaths in Transit: Geographic and Temporal Imaginaries of Transnational EmpathyDanyel FerrariState Politics and Global Governance 4. Photo Essay: A Means to ShelterSally Souraya5. Managing Crisis?: (Re)Thinking Turkey’s Discourse of “Refugee Crisis” Eda Sevinin 6. Transformation of Citizens to Refugees: The Case of Rohingyas of Myanmar Tasneem Siddiqui and C.R. Abrar7. West African Migration Regimes and the Externalization of EU Migration Management Policies Leander Kandilige and Thomas Yeboah Migrants, Im/mobility and Migration Regimes8. PRAN WOUT LA: Experiences and Dynamics of Haitian Mobility Melanie Montinard 9. Contesting Borders, Protesting Deportation: The Refugee from Darfur in Amman and CairoElena Habersky 10. “The Gospel Doesn’t Know Borders, Neither Do We": Congolese Migration, Religion, and Entrepreneurship in Three Metropolises: Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, and Guangzhou.Gerda Heck 11. Sounds of Transit Migration: Chaldean-Iraqi Migrant Music in Istanbul Evrim Hikmet Öğüt Nation-State and Nationalism in and through Migratory Context 12. Photo Essay: Sugarcane harvest: a sweet, deadly path for migrants in Guanacaste David Bolanos 13. Representing Nicaraguan immigration to Costa Rica through COVID-19Carlos Sandoval 14. Displaced Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia: An Example of Global Oppression Allison B. Wolf ConclusionNotes on Contributors

"The book offers a significant contribution to decolonial scholarship by advancing epistemic perspectives grounded in the experiences, knowledge production, and analytical frameworks emerging from the Global South." —Gennaro Errichiello, Sociological Inquiry"‘Essential Reading’ on immigration—Publishing Perspectives"This excellent book, while precise and concrete, provides a broad view of the diversity and multiplicity of border processes and migration policies in the global south while dealing with different populations in multiple countries on several continents." —Françoise Lestage, Université Paris Cité"This volume offers an original contribution to understanding mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration in the global South and captures well the complex diversity and dynamics of migrants’ active aspirations, desires and efforts towards ‘making routes,’ even in the face of robust attempts to curtail these movements." —Sujata Ramachandran, Balsillie School of International Relations