Journey without End

<i>Journey without End</i> chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales-African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist this book makes an engrossing sometimes surreal narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.<br> <br> The book begins with Kidane an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster-riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap-the gateway from South to Central America.<br> <br> <i>Journey without End</i> follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality. Mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks-Quito's tourist district a Colombian beachside resort Panama's Darién Gap and a Mexican border town-into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with racial gender and class exploitation. Throughout this struggle migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.