article unfolds the complexities of the “aspiration/desperation/mobility” nexus in contemporary rural–urban migration processes in Bangladesh. We focus in particular on the intersection of the physical and existential mobility of our interlocutors involved
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Aspiration and Desperation Traps in Trajectories of Physical and Social Mobility-Immobility
Young Female Migrants in the City
Ellen Bal, Hosna J. Shewly, and Runa Laila
The Post-Deportation Desperation and Refunneling of Aspirations of the Mexicans Deported from the United States
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
, waiting turns their migration aspirations into desperation (lack of aspirations and a feeling of helplessness). I argue that refunneling of aspirations, understood as imagining for oneself a plan of action alternative to remigration, anchors a deported
Desperate Aspirations among Paraguayan Youths
The Renegotiation of Migration and Rural Futures
Corinna Land
shared desperation and contradicts Doña Ramira's ghost city scenario. A change of scenery: Ángela's sister-in-law is sitting at her kitchen table in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. She shakes her head. “Life is becoming difficult here
Editorial
Stéphanie Ponsavady
uses the interrelation between aspiration and desperation as a powerful analytical framework to interrogate the relationships between mobility, immobility, migration, and sedentarization. By confronting these term-pairs, they also seek to deconstruct
“Who Leaves Home If There is a Choice?”
Migration Decisions of Women Workers on Tea Plantations in India
Supurna Banerjee
entry point to the puzzles that this article engages with: from here, we can examine meanings around migration, through interrogating the frames of mobility and immobility, aspiration and desperation that are often deployed, and understand and articulate
Introduction
Interrogating Aspirations through Migratory Mobilities
Supurna Banerjee and Eva Gerharz
complex interrelation between aspiration and desperation constitutes the key entry point for examining migration and im/mobility. Lived experiences show how aspirations are shaped by structures and regimes of mobility on the one hand, and migrant
Response to my critics
Ellen Hertz
opinion piece ( 2020 ): ‘There is an air of desperation about the incessant efforts to address [socioeconomic] problems by jawboning corporations to be better citizens.’ I believe it is time to conclude, with Appelbaum, that the great experiment in
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Reply
- Pages:
- 124–126 (3 total)
In the shade of the chinar
Dushanbe's affective spatialities
Malika Bahovadinova
affect and sentimental politics ( Berlant 1999 ) in the processes of city beautification and development. While the desperation shown by those mourning the old Soviet city of Dushanbe may not have been able to stem the tide of construction, this article
Some Final Jottings
Lionel Blue
Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit . The only answer is to try it and see if anybody is there or not. That is what I did, out of desperation, and I advise you to do the same. You may know a lot about God and have certificates and doctorates in theology
In European Judaism
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 126–129 (4 total)
Book Review
Matthew Bradney
individual desperation, a kind of drowning. Perhaps the most interesting part of chapter one is Dean’s criticism of ‘left realism’ according to which collectivity is ‘undesirable because it is suspected of excluding possibilities, effacing difference, and