The New Nomadic Age

It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays.

It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays.

Preface Yannis Hamilakis Introduction Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration Yannis Hamilakis Chapter 1 The 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan: Migration, Material Landscapes, and the Making of Nations Erin P Riggs, Zahida Rehman Jat Chapter 2 "We Palestinian Refugees" - Heritage Rites and/as the Clothing of Bare Life: Reconfiguring Paradox, Obligation, and Imperative in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jordan Beverley Butler, Fatima Al-Nammari Chapter 3 Surveilling Surveillance: Countermapping Undocumented Migration in the USA-Mexico Borderlands Haeden Eli Stewart, Ian Osterreicher, Cameron Gokee, Jason De Leon Chapter 4 Place Making in Non-Places: Migrant Graffiti in Rural Highway Box Culverts Gabriella Soto Chapter 5 Lessons from the Bakken Oil Patch William Caraher, Bret Weber, Richard Rothaus Chapter 6 Empty Migrant Rooms: An Anthropology of Absence through the Camera Lens Eckehard Pistrick, Florian Bachmeier Chapter 7 If Place Remotely Matters: Camped in Greece's Contingent Countryside Kostis Kourelis Chapter 8 Orange Life Jackets: Materiality and Narration in Lesvos, One Year after the Eruption of the "Refugee Crisis" George Tyrikos-Ergas Chapter 9 Interrupted Journeys: Drawings by Refugees at the Kara Tepe Camp, Lesvos, Greece Angela Maria Arbelaez Arbelaez, Edward Mulholland Chapter 10 Abandoned Refugee Vehicles "In the Middle of Nowhere": Reflections on the Global Refugee Crisis from the Northern Margins of Europe Oula Ilari Seitsonen, Vesa-Pekka Herva, Mika Kunnari Chapter 11 The Garden of Refugees Rui Gomes Coelho Chapter 12 Reframing the Lampedusa Cross: The British Museum's Display of the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis Morgan Lynn Breene Chapter 13 What Anchors the Tu Do? Denis Byrne Chapter 14 "Heritage on Exile": Reflecting on the Roles and Responsibilities of Heritage Organizations towards Those Affected by Forced Migration John Schofield Chapter 15 The Materiality of the State of Exception: Components of the Experience of Deportation from the United States Agnieszka Radziwinowiczowna Chapter 16 Digging up Sounds, Images and Words together in Athens Christina Phoebe Thomopoulos Chapter 17 A Poem Saeid Ghasemi Afterword Commentary Rodney Harrison Commentary Parker VanValkenburgh

• By (author) Yannis Hamilakis

"This collection of papers is well put together and demonstrate a range of issues concerning forced migration. The book illustrates how archaeology is of use to ongoing processes and is recommended both to archaeologists and people in other sectors." --Silje Evjenth Bentsen, Silje Evjenth, University of Bergen, Norway
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