Description

Journey without End chronicles the yearslong journey of extracontinentalesAfrican and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist this book makes a narrativedriven critique of how statelevel immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants

The book begins with Kidane an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the fouryear trip to North America it then picks up the natural disasterriddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darin Gapthe gateway from South to Central America

This book follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semipermanent state of legal and existential liminality Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecksQuitos tourist district a Colombian beachside resort Panamas Darin Gap and a Mexican border towninto spontaneous migrationoriented spaces rife with racial gender and class exploitation Throughout this struggle migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures