Susan Ossman, Ed., The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, And Global Mobility (Book Review‪)‬

Susan Ossman, ed., The Places We Share: Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility. Lanham, Boulder and New York: Lexington Books, 2007. 230 pp. Susan Ossman has edited--and, along with twelve colleagues, written--a stunning book about serial migrants, people who have lived in at least three different countries. In voicing their own and others' stories of serial migration, these authors question the received wisdom of a binary, origin-and-destination model of migration. They provoke a critical rethinking of migrants' experience as displacement and assimilation. They reflect on what it may (or may not) mean to be cosmopolitan. The Places We Share gives us an insider's view of serial migration, since all these writers, including Ossman, are serial migrants themselves.