Border Frictions

Côté-Boucher, Karine

doi:10.4324/9780429027680

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“…Based on testimonials, some Syrians attempted to cross the border to Lebanon several times before they were permitted entry. These and other similar situations underline the manifestation of ‘border frictions’ (Côté-Boucher, 2020) and the “flow of duration that is embodied and endured” (Bissell, 2018: 137) by people waiting in border control spaces.…”

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The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict

Ilcan

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The past several decades has witnessed diverse techniques of border control and migrant experiences and negotiations of border controls. This article focusses on the spatio-temporal dimensions of border control that underscore the deceleration of migration movements and stimulate certain kinds of agency, processes that bring attention to what is referred to as the borderization of waiting. Drawing on and contributing to critical migration and border studies, the analysis first draws attention to city street protests in Syria that demanded political change, which in turn created powerful responses including the expansion of protests against the state, the circulation of fear by the state, and the movements of people out of Syria. It then demonstrates how the borderization of waiting during the 2011 Syrian civil conflict occurs at many different points along migrant journeys and encompasses not only precarity but also fear, insecurity, invisibility, and presence. This form of waiting encourages ‘agency-in-displacement,’ which involves strategizing journeys and negotiating inter-state military checkpoints, state territorial borders, and holding zones in order for people on the move to access safety and protection. The analysis draws on policy, program, and scholarly documents, and on a selection of fifty-five in-depth, interviews with Syrians, now resettled in Canada, about their experiences and negotiations of border controls during their departures from the civil conflict.

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The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict

Ilcan

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Among the most significant of these was the transfer of immigration enforcement responsibilities to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) following its creation in 2003. The CBSA has since become a border policing institution endowed with a security mandate and characterized by a heightened law enforcement organizational culture (Côté-Boucher, 2020). This translates into a "hostile" attitude towards asylum seekers (Atak et al, 2018: 23), a generational change of guard unprepared to process asylum claims, and an organization largely unsympathetic to migrants' rights and entitlements.…”

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Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border

Côté-Boucher

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Jannard

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Irregular crossings at the Canada-US border between 2017 and 2019 made headlines and pervaded political debates. Drawing on the literature on the instrumentalization of migration crises and on the disappearance of asylum in Canada, this article interrogates the “crisis” framing of these arrivals. We argue that, at its core, this framing builds on the incremental erasure of asylum seekers as a legal and political reality from the Canadian public sphere over the last three decades. During this period and leading up to 2017, there was a shift in the public understanding of asylum from an international obligation to a problem that had been dealt with and erased. When this “problem” resurfaced in 2017, it shattered the illusion. Over the past two decades, Canada and the United States have created a hostile border architecture that channels migrants towards a narrow section of the Quebec-New York border known as Roxham Road. This generated pressures on Quebec's migrant settlement resources, providing the elements for a framing of these arrivals as a “crisis” and paving the way for the implementation of exceptional measures within a very tight framework, with massively expanded budgets, and with the participation of a range of public and private actors at times unfamiliar with the international protection system and unprepared to meet the needs of asylum seekers. The discussion concludes with an examination of two main legacies of the Roxham Road events: the articulation of a Canada-specific form of border humanitarianism and the solidification of an old policy aspiration – the elimination of the agentic asylum seeker.

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“…This article aims to shed light on criminology of mobility (Pickering et al 2014) on technology at the border (Côté -Boucher 2020;Milivojevic, 2019), and in particular on the recent evolution of EU databases in migration management, which have been only rarely investigated (Aas 2011) in this field of research. Political scientists and legal scholars have investigated the interaction between surveillance/security, technology and policy, and also the risks for fundamental rights of the storage and processing of biographical data and biometrics (among the many, Bigo 2014;Custers et al 2013;Hoffmann, 2019;Lyon 2001Lyon , 2003.…”

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Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self

Ferraris

2022

European Journal of Criminology

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EU management of migration is undergoing an unprecedented transformation because of the use of databases and information systems. Drawing on the concept of border performativity, this article discusses how data is transforming the border. In particular, the article focuses on 1) how the EU JHA databases are evolving, from separate systems each with one purpose to multi-purpose databases, and 2) how the new EU plan – the interoperability regulation – connects and merges biometric and biographical data, as part of a shift from a silo-based approach towards a single centralised information system. The article - based on results of several research projects carried out between 2011 and 2019 adopting mixed methodology - discusses the border crossers’ role in challenging this digital border control, both in light of the current practices of data collection and processing and newly approved EU regulations. The article argues that the transformation of border control practices into practices driven by data processing makes it more difficult for border crossers to manoeuvre the system and legally challenge decisions based on data processing, thus, hampering the transformation of the border from below.

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Border Frictions

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The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict

The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict

Chronicle of a “crisis” foretold: Asylum seekers and the case of Roxham Road on the Canada-US border

Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self

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