Coercive Geographies: Studies in Critical Social Science

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement. An Introduction
Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen
2 Migrants’ Entrapment in a ‘State of Expectancy’: Patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece
Apostolos Kapsalis, Konstantinos Floros and Martin Bak Jørgensen
3 Constructing Immobility: Border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the Aegean
Vasileios Spyridon Vlassis
4 “Cyprus Is a Big Prison”: Reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border Society
Leandros Fischer
5 “When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left”: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration Corridors
Karin Krifors
6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: Labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural Sector
Susi Meret and Irina Aguiari
7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: The Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates
Abdulkadir Osman Farah
8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Middle East before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957–1967
Martin Ottovay Jørgensen
9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920–1960
Sven Van Melkebeke
10 Life on the Run: Coercive Geographies in Denmark–Norway, 1600–1850
Johan Heinsen
11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative Context
Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen
Index