Join us for a book talk featuring Gerda Heck, assistant professor of sociology at the department of sociology, Egyptology, and anthropology at the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, at the American University in Cairo, in conversation with the editors of Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migrant in the Global South, edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García, in addition to two special guests.
Gerda contributed a chapter titled “The Gospel Doesn’t Know Borders, Neither Do We,” which explores Congolese migration, religion, and entrepreneurship in Three Metropolises: Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, and Guangzhou.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, providing the audience with an opportunity to ask the speakers/ editors of the book questions.
Register here via Zoom.
Livestreaming will be available through the AUC Press Facebook page.
About Making Route: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South, edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García with a foreword by Ibrahim Awad (AUC Press, 2024).
The book provides a fresh understanding of mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration across the Global South, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
“This excellent book, while precise and concrete, provides a broad view of the diversity and multiplicity of border processes and migration policies in the global south while dealing with different populations in multiple countries on several continents.” —Françoise Lestage, Université Paris Cité
“This volume offers an original contribution to understanding mobility flows, transnational linkages, and the politics of migration in the global South and captures well the complex diversity and dynamics of migrants’ active aspirations, desires, and efforts towards ‘making routes,’ even in the face of robust attempts to curtail these movements.” —Sujata Ramachandran, Balsillie School of International Relations
