A Message to You: A Cartography of Mobilities - Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities and Global Cities - Paperback

by Natalia Ribas-Mateos (Author)

New analytical frameworks help us to shed light on global transformations regarding community responses and complex ways to think about gendered solidarities. Bringing together different ethnographic fieldworks, Ribas-Mateos provides lucid accounts of fundamental themes of the current times. This book involves a serious effort of visibilization of the hidden sexual violence in Mediterranean borders--particularly in Tangier and Oujda. Moreover, it brings such message of visibilization to diasporic cites--London and Paris--through the organization of video-debates and crowdfunding projects.

Author Biography

Natalia Ribas-Mateos is Maria Zambrano Senior Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain, and Visiting Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark. She has led and participated in numerous major projects related to migration, mobilities, gender, and borders. She has conducted fieldwork in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and at the US-Mexico border. Her most recent publications are: Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration (Edward Elgar 2021; with Timothy J. Dunn), Social Mobilization in Morocco: Lessons Learned from a Historically Informed Activism (ibidem Press 2022 [French edition, forthcoming, Le Croquant]; with Laura Feliu, Josep Lluis Mateo, and Ferran Izquierdo Brichs), The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration (Edward Elgar 2022; with Saskia Sassen), and The Encyclopaedia on Global Migration (Edward Elgar, forthcoming; with Laura Oso and Melissa Moralli).