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2022-2023 Colloquium Series
The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to present
The Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile
Natalia Bloch
Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Kathleen M. Adams
Professorial Research Associate, SOAS-University of London
Professor Emerita, Loyola University, Chicago
Visiting Fellow, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University
Stephanie Malia Hom
Associate Professor, Transnational Italian Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Friday, February 3, 1PM-3PM PST
Hybrid Presentation
In Person: Gifford Room, 221 Anthropology and Art Practice Bldg.
University of California, Berkeley
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About the Presentation:
In this presentation, Natalia Bloch and Kathleen M. Adams will present their new
book, The Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (Routledge, 2023), and
Stephanie Malia Hom will share insights drawn from her pandemic-centered
postscript. Bloch and Adams’s volume challenges the classic—and often tacit--
compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the
intersections of these forms of spatial mobility. Each form of mobility prompts
distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they often intertwine, overlap, and
influence one another. Tourism, migration, and exile evoke widely varying policies,
popular reactions, and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these
siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender, class, ethnic,
and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people’s
movements? Several authors of the book’s twelve predominantly ethnographic case
studies from around the world may also join the discussion. In recounting and
juxtaposing stories of refugees’ and migrants’ returns, marriage migrants,
voluntourists, migrant retirees, migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs, mobile
investors and professionals, and refugees pursuing educational mobility, this project
cultivates more nuanced insights into intersecting forms of mobility. Ultimately, the
authors hope their work will foster not only empathy but greater resolve for forging
trails towards mobility justice.
Speaker Bios:
Natalia Bloch is an anthropologist and Associate
Professor in the Institute of Anthropology and
Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
Poland. She specializes in the anthropology of
mobility in the postcolonial context. She conducted
research in Tibetan refugee settlements and among
mobile workers and entrepreneurs of the informal
tourism sector in India. She is the author of
Encounters across Difference Tourism and
Overcoming Subalternity in India (Lexington Books
2021). Her articles have appeared, among others,
in Critique of Anthropology, Annals of Tourism
Research, Journal of Refugee Studies, Critical
Asian Studies, and Transfers. Interdisciplinary
Journal of Mobility Studies. 
Kathleen M. Adams is Professorial Research
Associate at SOAS-University of London, Professor
Emerita at Loyola University Chicago, and Visiting
Fellow at Wakayama University’s Center for
Tourism Research. Her specializations include
tourism and heritage, the politics of art, museums,
ethnicity, and nationalism. Adams’s award-winning
books include Art as Politics: Re-crafting Identities,
Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja (2006) and The
Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and
Beyond (2019, with Leite and Castañeda). She has
also authored Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture
(2020), Everyday Life in Southeast Asia (2011, with
Gillogly) and other books. Her articles can be read
in Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism
Geographies, Museum Worlds, and American
Ethnologist. 
Stephanie Malia Hom is Associate Professor of
Transnational Italian Studies at UC Santa Barbara
and Co-Founder of the UC Berkeley Tourism
Studies Working Group. She writes and lectures on
modern Italy and the Mediterranean, mobility
studies, colonialism and imperialism, migration and
detention, and tourism history and practice. She is
the author of Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical
Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and
Detention (Cornell, 2019) and The Beautiful
Country: Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy (Toronto, 2015).
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