Geoeconomics geohistoricised

Sparke, Matthew

doi:10.1111/tran.12652

Trans Inst British Geog

2023

DOI: 10.1111/tran.12652

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Geoeconomics geohistoricised

Matthew Sparke

Abstract: Introducing a special commentary section focused on geoeconomics, this paper reviews why such commentary is especially timely given current world events and the break‐down in neoliberal globalisation. It thereby points to the geo‐historical importance of the call for critical geoeconomics made by Mallin and Sidaway (2023a), and also introduces the backgrounds of the five commentators on their article's key contributions.

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Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum

Häkli,

Kudžmaitė,

Kallio

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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The latest EU policy initiative to regulate migration to the European Union is called the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Compared with previous policies, the New Pact promotes and normalises multiple procedures that can have far‐reaching consequences on migrants' agency, dignity, personhood, and vulnerability. As the EU's migration and asylum policies set the parameters for the governance of forced migration and access to asylum in the Member States, they also provide framings for the practical encounters between asylum seekers and the migration regime. These framings legitimise certain approaches to the management of asylum migration and the related interpretations of international human rights treaties both in the Member States and in the EU. By examining how migrants and their encounters with the EU are discussed and represented in the New Pact, we join the critical scholarship that has questioned the EU's supposed turn towards a more humane approach to migration. Examining the official voice of the EU, we conduct a critical policy analysis with a focus on terminology and framing, exploring three major frames through which the New Pact characterises migrants as part of its attempt to transform European asylum and migration governance. These frames relate to human classification, spatial coordination, and temporal control, each of which is linked to the management of encounters between migrants and the migration regime. We conclude by discussing what the New Pact's framing reveals about the EU's approaches to human vulnerability, dignity, agency, and (de)valued personhood.

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Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum

Häkli,

Kudžmaitė,

Kallio

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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Conflicting geographical imaginaries in globalised labour markets: The local valorisation of international education among employers and returned international students

Ren,

2024

Trans Inst British Geog

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While scholars have extensively investigated the post‐study career experiences of international students, there has been a dearth in the literature on the mediation of intersubjectivities in the local valorisation of international education, particularly neglecting the perspective of recruiters. Through the lens of geographical imaginaries and drawing on qualitative data from recruiters in professional sectors and returned students in China, this paper reveals the significant role of imaginaries in shaping the perceptions and practices of both parties during the university‐to‐work transitions. The findings underscore that overseas credentials, codified knowledge, and embodied competencies were central to recruiters' and returnees' imaginaries regarding international education. However, conflicts in these imaginaries between recruiters and graduates resulted in the distinct valorisation of the socioeconomic value of overseas education between the two groups and created challenges for returnees' transitions from overseas education to local professional employment. This study emphasises the importance of emplaced intersubjectivities in comprehending international student mobilities as an ongoing transnational process across global educational spaces and local labour markets. It also underscores the role of local contexts and networks in valorising and mediating the value of international education, creating place‐specific patterns of university‐to‐work transitions among returnees.

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Geoeconomics geohistoricised

Cited by 2 publications

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Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum

Devaluing personhood: The framing of migrants in the EU's new pact on migration and asylum

Conflicting geographical imaginaries in globalised labour markets: The local valorisation of international education among employers and returned international students

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