2021
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12703
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The Significance of the Insignificant: Borders, Urban Space, Everyday Life

Abstract: This paper can be read as a film sequence, as each scene is based on the narration of a different everyday encounter in the city. The aim of the paper is to start a discussion on the multiple ways borders proliferate in the urban: not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper captures the multiple relations that connect the camp to the city square, the deportation … Show more

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“…These complex situated intersections tie to city space as fluctuating, dynamic and often contradictory (Lafazani, 2021). This article shows how social processes relate to spatial forms (Tonkiss, 2005), while daily life and the intimate spaces of the everyday are connected with the geopolitical (Pain, 2015).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These complex situated intersections tie to city space as fluctuating, dynamic and often contradictory (Lafazani, 2021). This article shows how social processes relate to spatial forms (Tonkiss, 2005), while daily life and the intimate spaces of the everyday are connected with the geopolitical (Pain, 2015).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2016) to explain the collective actions and clandestine mobilities of migrants, who “often escape attempts to regulate, capture, and deter them” (Stierl 2019:25). The mobile commons, as Papadopoulos and Tsianos (2013:179) stress, concerns and unveils the “shared knowledge, affective cooperation, mutual support and care between migrants”, while it constitutes an epistemological approach that goes beyond mainstream representations that criminalise or victimise migrants (Lafazani 2021; Mezzadra 2010). By focusing on human agency, social interrelations, and subjectivities, the mobile commons perspective aims to “dethrone” (Olmos 2019:7) traditional structural analyses that examine migration “through overwhelming ‘push and pull’ dynamics and thus [see migrants as] victims whose interests require the mediation of advocates, social workers, clergy, and/or intellectuals to speak in their name” (ibid.).…”
Section: The Refugees’ Right To the City (Centre) Through Mobile Comm...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In City Plaza, the most trivial, the most tedious daily tasks became political: how we cook the food, how we clean the building, how we take care of children, how we share resources and responsibilities, how we speak to each other (Lafazani 2021). This scale, the scale of everyday social reproductionoften invisible in political discourses and hidden in the private realm of the housein City Plaza was overly visible: it not only had to be framed, but became a main theme of discussion in assemblies and meetings, it became a basis for a different starting point of 'being political'.…”
Section: Squatting On Private Propertymentioning
confidence: 99%