2012
DOI: 10.1177/0305829812463473
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Ambivalence and Citizenship: Theorising the Political Claims of Irregular Migrants

Abstract: Irregular migration gives rise to political claims that test the limits of political community and the expression of human rights in an increasingly interconnected world. This article provides a theorisation of the political claims of irregular migrants that starts with the notion of ambivalence. I argue that the ambivalence present in such claims can be understood as a political resource that is generative of new political relations across the terrain of human mobility and border control. In order to discern … Show more

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“… In contrast to Agambenian‐influenced views of the lack of agency of migrants, more critical scholarship engages with a diversity of issues ranging from migration and citizenship politics (for example, McNevin ; Sigona ) to humanitarian politics (for example, Squire ). …”
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confidence: 99%
“… In contrast to Agambenian‐influenced views of the lack of agency of migrants, more critical scholarship engages with a diversity of issues ranging from migration and citizenship politics (for example, McNevin ; Sigona ) to humanitarian politics (for example, Squire ). …”
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confidence: 99%
“…The 'autonomy of migration' literature draws on Marxist traditions. It focuses on political agency and migrants' capacity to subvert and therefore transform their context, drawing on experience and action in order to challenge sovereign power and citizenship, understood in the narrow sense of the territorial nation-state (McNevin, 2013). This intellectual engagement with international migration, and in particular with illegal migration, is, in part, a reaction to much of the literature of international relations, which is focused on control producing the securitised subject and its abjection and often draws on Giorgio Agamben as inspiration for analysis (Edkins and Pin-Fat, 2005;Hyndman and Mountz, 2008;Andrijasevic, 2010;Rygiel, 2011).…”
Section: Space and Ephemeral Acts Of Autonomy -Creative Spacementioning
confidence: 99%
“…For some, AoM proponents have relied on an abstract representation of the migrant that evades the heterogeneous, unequal, and profoundly complex realities and dynamics of contemporary mobility. AoM is charged of dismissing the ways in which migration is embodied and relational (McNevin 2013;Scheel 2013). In what concerns autonomy, AoM is accused of underestimating the amounts and varieties of power in place in the politics of governing and controlling mobility.…”
Section: Migration Citizenship and Tactical Interventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%