Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis

Genova, Nicholas Paul De

doi:10.1515/njmr-2015-0005

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“…According to those who experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union themselves, the everyday However, ethno-linguistic notions enter into yet different power relations in migratory contexts, and even more, in such a large metropolis as London, which are not only nodes of power, wealth and culture but also host millions of foreign-born people (De Genova 2015;Massey 2007;Sassen 1991). Simultaneously, such large metropolises inevitably have the other side of run-down suburbs, disempowerment, poverty and long working hours where migrants rarely can see the wealth and power of the city (Datta 2011;Wills et al 2010).…”

Section: Narrating Encounters With Latvian Speakers In Londonmentioning

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Strangers within? Russian-speakers’ migration from Latvia to London: a study in power geometry and intersectionality

Lulle

Jurkane-Hobein

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper seeks to contribute to debates on ethnic identification and migration through a focus on a specific group-Russian-speakers from the Baltic state of Latvia who have migrated to the UK. Twenty-six interviews with members of this group were gathered in London and the wider metropolitan area during 2012 and 2014. Russian-speakers represent uniquely combined configurations of 'the other within': in most cases, they are EU citizens with full rights; yet, some still hold non-citizens' passports of Latvia. While in Latvian politics Russian-speakers are framed as 'others' whose identities are shaped by the influence of Russia, interview findings confirm that they do not display belonging to contemporary Russia. However, London is the 'third space'-a multicultural European metropolis-which provides new opportunities for negotiating ethnic identification. Against the background of triple 'alienation' (from Latvia, from Russia and from the UK) we analyse how ethnicity is narrated intersectionally with other categories such as age and class. The findings show that Russian-speaking migrants from Latvia mobilise their Europeanness and Russianness beyond alienating notions of (ethno)national identity. The paper also demonstrates that being open to ethnicity as a category of practice helps us towards a progressive conceptualisation of often overlooked dimensions of integration of intra-EU linguistic 'others'.

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Section: Narrating Encounters With Latvian Speakers In Londonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strangers within? Russian-speakers’ migration from Latvia to London: a study in power geometry and intersectionality

Lulle

Jurkane-Hobein

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…As such, advancing debates around the commons—and the possibility of radical change more broadly—would benefit from a closer theoretical consideration of the state. Critical approaches to the state highlight, variously, the state's role within the coercive enforcement of capital accumulation (often accumulation by disposition) (Harvey ; Parenti ; Robertson and Wainwright ); the bureaucratic enabling of colonial expansion (Scott ); the violent policing of black and migrant bodies (De Genova ); and the gendered fragmentation of our social world (Federici ). Thus, it is easy to conceive of the state as “the enemy”.…”

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Towards an Energy Politics In‐Against‐and‐Beyond the State: Berlin's Struggle for Energy Democracy

Angel

2016

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Social movements in struggle around energy are currently developing an imaginary of "energy democracy" to signify the emancipatory energy transitions they desire. Deploying a scholar-activist perspective, this paper contributes to debates around the concretisation of the energy democracy imaginary by exploring the relationship of energy democracy movements to the state. To do so, I focus on the experiences of the Berliner Energietisch campaign, which in 2013 forced (and lost) a referendum aiming to extend-and democratise-the local state's role in Berlin's energy governance. Drawing on relational theories of the state, I argue that it is productive to read Berliner Energietisch as enacting an energy politics in-against-and-beyond the state. In making this argument, I draw out implications for theoretical and strategic debates around the commons and the state.

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“…The present historical conjuncture reveals a resurgence of this type of ubiquitous border enforcement. This means that border struggles are now dislocated and re‐scaled as urban struggles (De Genova ).…”

Section: Geographies Of Deathmentioning

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“…Thus, a critical attention to the open‐ended processes of border‐making and state practices of illegalisation invites an interrogation of some of the defining concepts in urban studies—above all, the very concept of the city. The proliferation of the border in multiple and diverse sites of immigration enforcement across the extended and uneven geographies of migration have led De Genova to propose the concept of the migrant metropolis (De Genova ; see also Gambino ). The state of exception, with its convoluted but ever expansive and recurrent spatio‐temporalities, requires a conceptualisation of an urban world increasingly characterised by a proliferation of migrant and refugee camps (Agier )—some self‐organised and autonomous launchpads for migrants’ mobility projects (Lecadet , ), others spaces of humanitarian government or abandonment (Garelli and Tazzioli ), and yet others outright detention centres and migrant prisons.…”

Section: Geographies Of Deathmentioning

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Practices of Illegalisation

Genova

Roy

2020

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This article contributes to theorising the often unrecognised continuities between the illegalisation of migrant and refugee mobilities as an effect of lawmaking or other state practices of border policing and immigration law enforcement and the illegalisation of the rights, claims, and juridical status of minoritised citizens. Against a backdrop of resurgent right-wing nationalisms, we pursue this transversal analysis of state practices of illegalisation to draw attention not only to labour subordination and disposability but also the more fundamental relationship between law and terror. The making of such regimes of citizenship takes place in obvious ways at the ostensible outer edges of nation-state territories. They are also replicated in the various spatial arrangements that ensure racialised dispossession within global cities, cities that are better understood as reconfigurations of settler-colonial cities. We argue that the study of practices of illegalisation allows critical poverty scholarship to better discern how sociopolitical categories and classifications that are central to wider processes of marginalisation and domination may arise or be reinforced as effects of the state's legal productions of illegality.

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Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis

Cited by 50 publications

References 53 publications

Strangers within? Russian-speakers’ migration from Latvia to London: a study in power geometry and intersectionality

Strangers within? Russian-speakers’ migration from Latvia to London: a study in power geometry and intersectionality

Towards an Energy Politics In‐Against‐and‐Beyond the State: Berlin's Struggle for Energy Democracy

Practices of Illegalisation

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