A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship on the border

Sparke, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2005.10.002

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“…In addition, local and state governments in the US have played more prominent roles in immigration control and policies since 9/11, thus effectively pushing the border inward (Coleman, 2007;Varsanyi, 2008). These legal technologies are enhanced by biometric technologies that locate borders and boundary enforcement in the bodies of individuals, no matter where those bodies may be located at particular moments and no matter what citizenship is attached to them (Amoore, 2006;Sparke, 2006). The significance of these monitoring technologies for the territoriality of citizenship is that individuals are subject to disciplining -and in the case of immigrants, to deportation -no matter where they may be.…”

Section: The Spatiality Of Citizenshipmentioning

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Dreaming the ordinary

Staeheli

Ehrkamp

Leitner

et al. 2012

Progress in Human Geography

193

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This paper intervenes in scholarly debates over citizenship by introducing the concept of 'ordinary' to analyze citizenship's complexities. Ordinary is often taken to mean standard or routine, but it also invokes order and authority. As such, conceptualising citizenship as ordinary trains our attention on the ways in which the spatiality of laws and social norms are entwined with daily life. The idea of ordinariness, thus fuses legal structures, normative orders and the experiences of individuals, social groups and communities, making citizenship both a general category and a contingent resource for political life. We explore this argument using immigrants as an example, but the conceptualization of citizenship extends more broadly.

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Section: The Spatiality Of Citizenshipmentioning

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Dreaming the ordinary

Staeheli

Ehrkamp

Leitner

et al. 2012

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In particular, scholars should not only explore how emotional subjectivities emerge in response to citizenship governance (Ho 2009, p.789), but also countenance the possibility that transnational migrant emotional subjectivities may develop in spite of state neoassimilationist invocations of national belonging within overarching frameworks of neoliberal citizenship (Sparke 2006). The governance of transnational migrants has been shown in this paper to be challenging for successive Governments F with cultivating national belonging in the interests of promoting integration and social cohesion; transnational migrants can be seen as troublesome in that they embody distanciated belongings.…”

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Neo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England

Waite¹

2012

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including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. 1 RESEARCH ARTICLENeo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England. AbstractThe overall aim of this paper is to contribute to debates on the relationships between citizenship and migration in the UK context in the light of recent changes in UK immigration policy. In particular, it focuses on the question of what an increasingly neo-assimilationist state articulation of national belonging means for transnational migrants living in Britain. The paper begins by charting the evolving nature of citizenship conceptualisations in Western neoliberal contexts and illustrates how Britain has T erein the state implies that the integrity of the nation state and its security can only be assured if migration flows and migrants themselves are closely controlled and monitored. This has led to Britain attempting to bolster the formal institution of citizenship (with its attendant rights and responsibilities) and tie it more explicitly to notions of belonging to the nation. Through research with national/regional policy officials and migrant organisations this paper firstly examines the political landscape of citizenship and belonging in Britain as it relates to migrants. Secondly, it draws on research with African transnational migrants in northern England to explore their senses of belonging and ask whether these cohere with the described state discourse or whether their feelings of belonging exist in tension with neoassimilationist policies designed to promote a core national identity.

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“…As will be evident in our discussion, the logics that we identify here generally connect these distinct and disparate practices with dispersed sites emerging through the rationales and logics undergirding the growth of detention. More specifically, nation-states and security industries deploy rationales of deterrence and securitization (including temporal logics of prevention and anticipation), and consistently frame these rationales through narratives of migrants as security threats, rhetoric that illustrates the increasing entanglement of securitization and immigration policies (Dauvergne, 2007;Sparke, 2006). These rationales link migration and mobility to fear-driven national security policies, converting mobility into regimes of containment; borders into regimes of exclusion.…”

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Conceptualizing detention

Mountz

Coddington

Catania

et al. 2012

Progress in Human Geography

220

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A neoliberal nexus: Economy, security and the biopolitics of citizenship on the border

Cited by 366 publications

References 25 publications

Dreaming the ordinary

Dreaming the ordinary

Neo-assimilationist citizenship and belonging policies in Britain: Meanings for transnational migrants in northern England

Conceptualizing detention

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