Henning Mankell’s novel Tea-Bag (2001) provides a powerful introduction to some of the themes that are also central to this book. In the opening scene of his novel, Mankell describes the experience of migration from the perspective of a mobile subject who travels from Africa to Europe. Mankell’s novel addresses events that have become prominent since the eighties, with the...

~In this chapter we discuss the corporeal choreographies of resistance that emerge in the global labour markets of care.~1. The research in the Philippines was conducted together with Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala. The...

~This chapter shifts the focus from the global political economy and racialized categorization of mobile bodies to undocumented migration and asylum seeking in Europe. The chapter engages with (re)thinking embodiment and political agency. It builds on field insights from Finland and France, passing by Greece with the most recent context of...

~‘Bodies which have “traces of dubious origin” (Ahmed 2007, 162) do not sink into public spaces but “stand out”’, writes Michele Lobo (2014, 719) in her discussion on practices of everyday multiculturalism in Australia. In chapter 3 we, on the other hand, discussed the attempt of the Philippine state to...

~abjection, 25–26, 30, 44, 99;

This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics is composed of trans-local relations between bodies and materials that are only understandable through empirical examination of those relations. It is the interaction of these elements that produces the forces that...