Lives in Transit

Lives
in
Transit
chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in
transit
through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,
Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, and
lives
become implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged along
transit
routes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,
Vogt encourages us to reimagine
transit
as a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.