Editorial: Why No Borders?

Anderson, Bridget; Sharma, Nandita; Wright, Cynthia

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.32074

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“…This concept can be thought alongside (but goes beyond) the 'no border' politics sketched by Anderson et al (2009; and King (2016) among others. It is the practical and everyday refusal to reinforce citizenship as a mechanism of bordering and exclusion by redefining relationships of cooperation and solidarity without reference to citizenship categories.…”

Section: Spatializing Citizenship and Anti-citizen Politics In Calaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais

Isacker¹

2019

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This paper examines domicidal practices against illegalized border crossers in Calais, France as a technology of citizenship and migration governance. It addresses recent calls to include actions and interventions which restrict citizenship in the context of illegalized migration within critical citizenship studies literature. Studying the state violence upholding and spatializing normative citizenship allows for a deeper understanding of citizenship’s implication in the European border regime, and raises questions on the concept’s continued application to theorizations of migrants’ political movements and spatial manifestations. The paper proposes anti-citizen politics as an alternative before arguing that the presence of this politics within the city’s squats and jungles, more than the physical occupations as such, is what the French state seeks to eradicate through acts of domicide. Working from empirical examples, the article describes a ‘carrot-and-stick’ domicide currently at work in Calais where the eviction and destruction of autonomous forms of migrant inhabitance is combined with a simultaneous offer of state managed accommodation. These tactics operate together to drive migrants out of the city of Calais, away from the UK border, and ultimately into a determination of their detain/deport-ability via citizenship’s scrutiny.

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Section: Spatializing Citizenship and Anti-citizen Politics In Calaismentioning

confidence: 99%

Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais

Isacker¹

2019

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“…Naming relations of power does not have to mean slipping into fixed, structural perspectives on power but can mean considering, as Anderson (2017: 501) does; "how relations of domination, coercion, instruction and so on emerge through the assembling of worlds…" (Anderson, 2017: 501). Within an immanent understanding, capitalist-imperial power, for example, emerges through borders (Mbembe, 2018;Anderson et al, 2009;Burridge, 2014), surveillance and immigration policy (Schapendonk et al, 2018) as well as policing and incarceration (Burridge, 2014). Rather than applying a particular -Marxist, non-representational, feminist or queerlens or logic to trace or understand mobility, this means understanding (im)mobility as an expression and technique of particular intensities and forms of power (Anderson, 2017).…”

Section: Redefining Mobility: Towards Radical Ontologies?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Radical mobilities

Davidson

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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As mobility becomes a key concept within geography it needs to be considered what a radical approach to mobility means. Reviewing literature on mobilities from within transport, policy mobilities and migration studies, this article discusses three interpretations of radical mobility: scale or speed of changes required in mobility, critical approaches tracing mobilities and relations of power and approaches that question the ontology of mobility. Drawing on material and radical black feminist thought, I instead suggest a rhizomatic understanding of mobility as material-semiotic transformation of energy. This ontology shifts understandings of what just and sustainable mobilities can be.

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“…His [ sic ] ‘illegality’ is often read as the direct product of the state (Anderson et al . ; Dauvergne ; De Genova ), which, by ‘excepting’ (Khosravi ) his presence, contributes to the creation of a cheap, scared and expendable workforce, functional to capital reproduction and accumulation (Bauder ; Coutin ; Hiemstra ). In the formation of both types of subjectivities, but particularly in the latter one, the national border acquires a new centrality and signals an opposite move to the de‐nationalisation process observed above.…”

Section: The Nation‐state Between De‐nationalisation and Re‐nationalimentioning

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“…In a world of nations where people are rooted to ‘their’ land, migration is an aberrant form of behaviour in need of being fixed (Anderson et al . , 8). It is against this reading of migration as deviance that the culturalist nation is also constituted as a ‘normal’ nation.…”

Section: Talking Nation In the Age Of Migrationmentioning

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The neoliberal culturalist nation: voices from Italy

Antonsich

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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The impact of neoliberal globalisation on the nation-state has been extensively studied in terms of politicoeconomic restructuring and forms of governmentality and securitisation. While the former speaks of a process of de-nationalisation, the latter brings about a re-nationalisation process. In both cases, though, the focus has only been on one component of the nation-state, that is, the state. The nation has either been treated as a given backdrop or merely ignored. This paper aims to bring the nation back as a way to better contextualise practices of socio-spatial exclusion associated with one particular aspect of neoliberal globalisation, namely international migration. By analysing parliamentary debates in Italy between 1986 and 2014, the paper explores the intersections between neoliberalism and cultural essentialism as they conflate in what I call the 'neoliberal culturalist nation'. This construct sheds light on the roles that a national culturalist imaginary plays in prompting and justifying governmental practices of securitisation, which in turn are implicated in the production of a vulnerable and expendable labour force. Moreover, it reveals how a neoliberal workfarist and individualised logic is functional to the 'normalisation' of the foreign immigrant, and the reproduction of the national titular group. My argument is that a national culturalist imaginary exists in a mutually reinforcing relation with, rather than in opposition to, neoliberalism. Far from keeping nation and state as ontologically distinct or theorising their decoupling, the paper points to a renewed spatial isomorphism between nation and state, which comes to epitomise the very process of current re-nationalisation.

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Editorial: Why No Borders?

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Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais

Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais

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