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Peutz, Nathalie; Genova, Nicholas De

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“…On the one hand, the confinement and expulsion of ‘unwanted’ foreigners reformulates and reaffirms state sovereignty. On the other, these practices are constitutive of political subjectivities including those of ‘citizen’, ‘resident’, ‘immigrant’ and ‘foreigner’ (Peutz and De Genova, 2010; Ugelvik, 2014b). Given the apparent emergence of a bifurcated system of justice that is directed at foreign-nationals in the UK, it is important to consider how this particular aspect of British penality is subjectively experienced ‘on the ground’ (Bosworth and Turnbull, 2015; Kaufman and Bosworth, 2013).…”

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“…2 Such law and policy changes are shifting both the purposes and experiences of punishment in the UK through the production of deportable subjects whose rights to remain begin to unravel upon conviction. Imprisonment is often the first stage in a complex process in which identity, belonging and punishment intertwine in the lives of those enmeshed in what Peutz and De Genova (2010) term the deportation regime. For many non-citizen residents of the UK, the consequences of criminal convictions are increasingly serious and life-shattering, potentially undoing long histories of habitation, familial relations and livelihoods.…”

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From prison to detention: The carceral trajectories of foreign-national prisoners in the United Kingdom

Turnbull

Hasselberg

2016

Punishment & Society

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Abstract:The United Kingdom (UK) has taken an increasingly punitive stance towards 'foreign criminals' using law and policy to pave the way for their expulsion from the country. Imprisonment, then, becomes the first stage in a complex process intertwining identity, belonging and punishment. We draw here on research data from two projects to understand the carceral trajectories of foreignnational offenders in the UK. We consider the lived experiences of male foreign-nationals in two sites: prison and immigration detention. The narratives presented show how imprisonment and detention coalesce within the deportation regime as a 'double punishment', one that is highly racialised and gendered. We argue that the UK's increasingly punitive response to foreign-national offenders challenges the traditional purposes of punishment by sidestepping prisoners' rehabilitative efforts and denying 'second chances' while enacting permanent exclusion through bans on re-entry.

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From prison to detention: The carceral trajectories of foreign-national prisoners in the United Kingdom

Turnbull

Hasselberg

2016

Punishment & Society

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“…These repetitions begin to show how pleasure, fear and desire organize, orient, move and relate bodies, the ways in which pleasure, fear and desire are organized and regulated through the moral economy of the state and its borders, and how this moral economy allows or forces movement on some bodies defined in particular ways while others must stay in place. (Grewal 2005; Luibhéid, 2008; Luibhéid and Cantú, 2005; Peutz and DeGenova, 2010; Puar, 2007; Razack, 1998; White, 2010, 2013).…”

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The (not so) straight story: Queering migration narratives of sexual orientation and gendered identity refugee claimants

Murray

2014

Sexualities

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Canadian media coverage of sexual orientation and gendered identity (SOGI) refugees presents a relatively uniform story of these queer newcomers. While LGBT media have identified problems in some Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decisions, the hegemonic narrative remains one of 'migration to liberation nation'. In this article I argue that this hegemonic narrative is produced in relation to particular socio-cultural and juridical-legal categories which are themselves historically produced in and through the bureaucratic machinery of the state, human rights organizations, and some legal scholarship. The effect of this model narrative is to reinscribe what Ahmed (2010) calls the 'happy migrant', that is, someone who espouses national ideals which are couched in terms of empire, the new twist being that sexual diversity is now held aloft as justification of empire's liberation from abjection. Based on interviews with SOGI refugee claimants in Toronto.

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“…The politics of migration is often connected to debates over the survival of political community and national identity, as well as to debates over the provision of the ‘good’ society (Castles, 2002). From this perspective, border security and deportation regimes are treated as tools by which to enforce the distinction between who is ‘in’ or ‘out’ of political community (Peutz and De Genova, 2010). Individuals and families are thus constituted as ‘criminal’ or ‘irregular’ for having entered political territories, or over-stayed visas, without state authorisation (Betts, 2010; Dauvergne, 2008).…”

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Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised

Strange¹,

Squire

Lundberg³

2017

Politics

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The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to this end? The articles presented in this Special Issue of Politics each differently explore how actions by or on behalf of irregular/ised migrants involve processes of subjectivity formation that imply a form of agency. Collectively we explore how irregular migration struggles feature as a site marked by active subjects of trans-border politics. We propose a research agenda based on tracing those processes – both regulatory, activist, and everyday – that negotiate and contest how an individual is positioned as an ‘irregular migrant’. The ethos behind such research is to explore how the most marginalised individuals reclaim or reconfigure subjecthood in ambiguous terms.

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Cited by 102 publications

References 207 publications

From prison to detention: The carceral trajectories of foreign-national prisoners in the United Kingdom

From prison to detention: The carceral trajectories of foreign-national prisoners in the United Kingdom

The (not so) straight story: Queering migration narratives of sexual orientation and gendered identity refugee claimants

Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised

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