William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani, editors

Acknowledgments vii
Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1
Part I: Vehicles of Migration
1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35
2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58
3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84
4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105
Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures
5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131
6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153
7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183
Part III: The Geophysics of Migration
8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211
9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235
10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258
Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281
Contributors 295
Index 301