William Walters is Professor of Political Sociology at Carleton University.

Charles Heller is Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Lorenzo Pezzani is Lecturer in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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