Borders and bodies: siting critical geographies of migration

Gilmartin, Mary; Kuusisto–Arponen, Anna–Kaisa

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“…Living on the border also implies being the border (Khosravi, 2010), carrying the border in the body (Gilmartin, Arponen, 2019), going through experiences that other people normally do not need to go through (Cacho, 2012). Being "conduct" to certain places, being prevented from circulating through others, taking improvised life forms as a method, even if this method is not necessarily chosen (Simone, 2019).…”

Section: Concept Of Citizenship and The Production Of Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

Fernandes

2023

REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum.

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This paper proposes the notion of the “Borders of Citizenship” to emphasize people and mobility infrastructures (Jung, Buhr, 2021) that mediate citizenship through many places, actors, and social codes of and beyond the State. Thus, based on the concept of relational citizenship (Staheli et al., 2012), I present an Ethnography carried out from 2019 to 2022 in a Cultural Center, founded by African migrants in the city of São Paulo. More specifically, I draw attention to the center’s creation through Mamadou’s trajectory, the owner of the center, to highlight how mobility infrastructures play a decisive role in mediating migrant’s everyday life through many places, actors, and scales expanding their “sustainability of life”, materially and immaterially. I argue that these ordinary spaces are not politically inconsequential for the city or for the migrants. Rather, it shows how mobility and the city are entangled among many mediations that go beyond State, presenting local protagonists, (in)formal networks, and a sense of belonging that constantly reshapes Citizenship.

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Section: Concept Of Citizenship and The Production Of Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

Fernandes

2023

REMHU, Rev. Interdiscip. Mobil. Hum.

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“…They may involve temporary camps and other detention zones in informal spaces or outside the traditional spaces of the state (Davies and Isakjee 2015;Davies, Isakjee, and Dhesi 2017;Rygiel 2011;Deleixhe 2019), creating a zone of indistinction where migrants can be killed or harmed with impunity. For example, increasingly militarized border control makes migrant passage and entry ever more dangerous, exposing migrants to the bare life as they regularly encounter violence and death (Kynsilehto 2017;Gilmartin and Kuusisto-Arponen 2019;Jones and Johnson 2016;Squire 2017;Davitti 2018;Cuttitta and Last 2019;Rygiel 2016). In the biopolitical sense, border control allows the sovereign ultimate control over death through systematic neglect or "violent inaction" by the state (Doty 2011;Davies, Isakjee and Dhesi 2017).…”

Section: Securitization: Strategic Discursive Otheringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

Schenk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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Migrants are an easy, visible Other, seeming to fall neatly into the us-versus-them framework of nationalism. Nevertheless, much of the scholarly approach to migrant identity, with the partial exception of a largely separate literature on citizenship, has eschewed overt ties to nationalism studies. When us-versus-them language is used in relation to nationalism, the focus or nodal point is the identity of the seemingly homogenous “us” of the nation. However, when migrants are othered, the focus is not always the nation, and while othering migrants always creates exclusion, it is not always exclusion from a nation or identity group. This state of the field article analyzes the literature on populism, securitization, biopolitics, and other critical scholarship related to the issue of othering migrants. In each of these bodies of work, different sets of “us” are set against migrants, some of which evoke identity and others of which do not, elucidating the links (or the lack thereof) of each approach to the study of nationalism. In each of these frameworks, the migrant Other comes up against a different frame of reference, leaving migrants themselves (or any sense of migrant identity) somewhat lost amid the analytical frameworks, at continual risk of being re-othered as victims of circumstance without agency.

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“…In the past few years, geographers have indeed called for more important attention to be paid to space in migration studies, for spatialization of analysis (Simon, 2006) by emphasizing migrant's spatial practices and representations on several scales. Critical geographies of migration have more specifically raised the necessity of identifying how the processes marginalizing and oppressing migrants are spatialized (Gilmartin and Kuusisto-Arponen, 2019). Following Gill Valentine reminding us of "the significance of space in processes of subject formation" (2007,18) and "that in particular spaces there are dominant spatial orderings that produce moments of exclusion for particular social groups" (2007,19), this paper will investigate how refugeeness is also a spatially constructed subjectivity in the everyday lived experiences of migrants.…”

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Refugeeness, Sexuality, and Gender: Spatialized Lived Experiences of Intersectionality by Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Paris

Chossière

2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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In the last few years, asylum claims based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI) have received increased attention within migration and queer studies. Mostly focusing on the refugee status determination process, these works have emphasized how the expectations of asylum institutions about “genuine queer refugees” lead to the exclusion of many applicants from SOGI asylum. This paper aims at shifting the analysis perspective from the legal categorization process to the impacts of everyday experienced categories of “asylum seekers” or “refugees” on queer migrants in the Parisian area. Using a three-year long ethnographic fieldwork, completed through interviews with queer asylum seekers and refugees, this paper investigates how refugeeness, understood as the objective and subjective effects of migration and asylum policies on individuals, contributes to shaping lived experiences of sexual and gender minorities in France. By drawing attention to the ways that the multiple power relationships queer asylum seekers and refugees have to face are spatially grounded, this paper discusses how an intersectional understanding of sexuality, gender, and refugeeness allows us to emphasize the role played by migration status in the negotiation of hetero- and cisnormativity. This paper also argues that far from remaining passive toward the categorization process they are subjected to, queer asylum seekers and refugees strategically appropriate the administrative categories with which they are associated. Such an analysis of lived experiences of queer asylum seekers and refugees in the country of arrival thus highlights the complex reshaping of social location caused by migration.

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Borders and bodies: siting critical geographies of migration

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

Borders of Citizenship and the everyday life of African migrants' in the city of São Paulo, southeast of Brazil.

The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

Refugeeness, Sexuality, and Gender: Spatialized Lived Experiences of Intersectionality by Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Paris

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