Forced Migration in Transit: Migrant Experiences of Organized Violence in Mexico and Turkey

This book compares the life courses of forced migrants in two of the world’s most important transit countries: Turkey and Mexico. It examines the local, regional, and global contexts of their experiences, trajectories, and biographical projects, caught between return, stay, and forward movement.

Ludger Pries is Senior-Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Stephanie Schütze is Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a specialization in gender and migration studies at the Lateinamerika-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Ximena Alba Villalever is an anthropologist at the Lateinamerika-Institut of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where she is coordinator of the Gender Studies profile of the Master’s program.

Berna Safak Zülfikar Savci is a demographer and Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology, Department of Social Science, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany.