Stories are important. They keep us alive. In the ships, in the camps, in the quarters, field, prisons, on the road, on the run, underground, under siege, in the throes, on the verge—the storyteller snatches us back from the edge to hear the next chapter. In which we are the subjects. We, the hero of the tales. Our lives preserved. How it was, how it be. Passing it along in a relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives. (cited in Hawley, 1996, p. 41)
Originally published in 1985 and referring to a long history of slavery and colonisation in the USA this passage could have been written far more recently and refer to contemporary migration and migration literature. It shows the confluence of border narratives, the relationships that exist between colonial, corporeal and planetary histories and interrelations (Sheller 2018, p. 21) and the importance of understanding such texts in relation to each other, thus allowing us to better understand our current border spaces, ourselves as border crossers and the historical, cultural and political contexts which either control or privilege our mobility. The works discussed in this chapter draw maps of two contested borderscapes, they show the damage done, the lives on hold and on the move, the dance of our cultures across these liminal spaces, the choices that need to be made if mobility justice is to be achieved, and the proof that such great changes have previously be attained and are possible.
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