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Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility and Self‐Making in Mexico, T. Basok, D. Bélanger, M.L. Rojas Wiesner, and G. Candiz, Palgrave, 2015. No of pages: 144, Price $67.50 (hardback). ISBN 978‐1‐137‐50974‐1

Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility and Self‐Making in Mexico, T. Basok, D.... POPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE Popul. Space Place 2017; 23; e2021 Book Reviews RETHINKING TRANSIT MIGRATION: PRECARITY, Based on interviews of Central American mi- MOBILITY AND SELF-MAKING IN MEXICO, T. grants conducted in Mexico, the book’s strongest Basok, D. Bélanger, M.L. Rojas Wiesner, and G. Candiz, contribution is the idea that migrants adapt to the Palgrave, 2015. No of pages: 144, Price $67.50 (hard- risky migration endeavour through deep psycho- back). ISBN 978-1-137-50974-1 logical adjustments, such as by trying to pass for Mexican while in that country. These adjust- Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility, ments, the authors refer to as ‘techniques of the and Self-Making in Mexico unites various litera- self’, borrowing from later writings on tures from migration studies and the sociology governmentality by Michel Foucault and allied of work and occupations to ‘rethink’ the concept scholars. However, the authors only name these of ‘transit migration’. This term –‘transit migra- adjustments as such, invoking the weight of the tion’– is seriously disputed within the book. Foucauldian theory and vocabulary, but not re- The authors assert it is outmoded and insufficient ally explaining how the adaptive habits, prac- at explaining the transnational and overlapping tices, and dispositions of journeying migrants http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Population, Space and Place Wiley

Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility and Self‐Making in Mexico, T. Basok, D. Bélanger, M.L. Rojas Wiesner, and G. Candiz, Palgrave, 2015. No of pages: 144, Price $67.50 (hardback). ISBN 978‐1‐137‐50974‐1

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Population, Space and Place , Volume 23 (1) – Jan 1, 2017
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Wiley
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Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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10.1002/psp.2021
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POPULATION, SPACE AND PLACE Popul. Space Place 2017; 23; e2021 Book Reviews RETHINKING TRANSIT MIGRATION: PRECARITY, Based on interviews of Central American mi- MOBILITY AND SELF-MAKING IN MEXICO, T. grants conducted in Mexico, the book’s strongest Basok, D. Bélanger, M.L. Rojas Wiesner, and G. Candiz, contribution is the idea that migrants adapt to the Palgrave, 2015. No of pages: 144, Price $67.50 (hard- risky migration endeavour through deep psycho- back). ISBN 978-1-137-50974-1 logical adjustments, such as by trying to pass for Mexican while in that country. These adjust- Rethinking Transit Migration: Precarity, Mobility, ments, the authors refer to as ‘techniques of the and Self-Making in Mexico unites various litera- self’, borrowing from later writings on tures from migration studies and the sociology governmentality by Michel Foucault and allied of work and occupations to ‘rethink’ the concept scholars. However, the authors only name these of ‘transit migration’. This term –‘transit migra- adjustments as such, invoking the weight of the tion’– is seriously disputed within the book. Foucauldian theory and vocabulary, but not re- The authors assert it is outmoded and insufficient ally explaining how the adaptive habits, prac- at explaining the transnational and overlapping tices, and dispositions of journeying migrants

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