Managing Muslim Mobilities: Between Spiritual Geographies and the Global Security Regime [Paperback]

F?bos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of 'migration management' and secure borders.Acknowledgements Foreword: Geographies of Domination and Geographies of Resistance (Leif Manger) Chapter One: Managing Muslim Mobilities: A conceptual framework (Riina Isotalo and Anita F?bos) SECTION I: HISTORIES Chapter Two: Iraqi Refugees in the Arab Muslim World: Ottoman Legacies and Orientalist Presumptions (Dawn Chatty) Chapter Three: Spiritual Migration in the Context of Political Change: Bektashi Babas of Rumeli (Frances Trix) SECTION II: SECURITIZED MOBILITY, POLITICISED PRESENCE Chapter Four: Fear of Palestinization: Managing Refugees in the Middle East (Riina Isotalo) Chapter Five: The Discourse of Guesthood: Forced Migrants in Jordan (Oroub El-Abed) SECTION III: GRASPING THE TRANSFORMATION Chapter Six: Between Ghurba and Umma: Mapping Sudanese Muslim Moralities across National and Islamic Space (Anita F?bos) Chapter Seven: Accommodating Subversion and Social Transformation: Afghan Women's Clandestine Educational Movement in Iran (Homa Hoodfar) Chapter Eight: The Stuttgart Crescent: Muslim Material And Spiritual Geographies In Germany (Petra Kuppinger) SECTION IV: CONCLUSION Chapter Nine: Conclusion: Blurry PolarizationMuslim Mobilities Reconfigured (Riina Isotalo and Anita F?bos)

This is an extremely interesting and timely volume showcasing the wide variety of movement in the contemporary global environment. One of its strengths is the primarily focus upon movement within the Muslim world - a subject which is only recently starting to attract attention beyond scholars working on a specific case study. Managing Muslim Mobilities is certainly original in terms of the issues that it covers and the original research which mostly benefits from rich and detailed fieldwork. - Fiona McCallum, School of Internationalã(