Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: The cruel optimism of migration and non-spectacular borders

Polina Manolova

If ‘hopeful dreams’ are the ‘stuff’ of which migration is made, as Samuli Schielke (2020: xiii) has recently remarked, then we need to ask what are the imaginary constructs that transpire in subjective aspirations towards the ‘good life’ and what is the price that one incurs for pursuing these through migration. As imaginaries, contrary toRead more