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2019

Migration

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Constellations Of Mobility: The Politics Of Dream-Making, Yara Ahmed Feb 2019

Constellations Of Mobility: The Politics Of Dream-Making, Yara Ahmed

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This thesis is concerned with how we navigate the labyrinthine nature of our lifeworlds; as we build futures, we dream of other time-spaces. We hope; we wait; we feel stuck. More particularly, this thesis is concerned with the processes of movement that occur when precarious queer bodies dream of a somewhere else, echoing what is brewing in the body, what spills over the boundaries and categories of the possible and the impossible. I take an ethnographic approach in an attempt to trace the multiple projects of dream-making that are becoming around my interlocutors. These projects translate to a crafting of …


Of Bodies And Borders: Syrian Migration To Egypt Through Sudan, Banan Abdelrahman Feb 2019

Of Bodies And Borders: Syrian Migration To Egypt Through Sudan, Banan Abdelrahman

Theses and Dissertations

This research explores Syrian migration movements to Egypt through the Sudanese smuggling route. By grappling with notions of sovereignty, critical geography, mobile subjectivities, and modes of governance, the thesis unpacks the recent flux on the route through describing the journey itself, as well as the way different bodies cross the border and settle. Through the multiple sites the research was conducted in, it seeks to contribute to growing discussions surrounding new understandings of migration. The thesis followed and traced the migration journey, from its beginnings in Khartoum, through Aswan, and ending in Cairo using various methodologies- namely: engaged ethnography and …