Lives in Transit by Elena Fontanari - 9780367583309

Lives in TransitAn Ethnographic Study of Refugees Subjectivity across European Borders\nAuthor(s): Elena Fontanari\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367583309, 978-0367583309\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the border-crossing mobilities of refugees within Europe. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Germany and Italy, it examines the precarious everyday lives of non-citizens living between and beyond EU internal borders. With attention to the constant re-construction of borders within Europe through negotiation practices, the author shows how the tensions that exist between refugees on the move and the structural constraints that limit their movement produce interstices small spaces of possibility that open up as a result of refugees struggling within structural constraints. A comprehensive understanding of the long-term effects of EU borders upon refugees lives is then afforded through a particular focus on the po.