Between Inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global Space and Borders

Mezzadra, Sandro; Neilson, Brett

doi:10.1177/0263276412443569

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“…While laws and regulations offer access to legal rights and a basic provision of social rights, they simultaneously erect internal temporal borders (Mezzadra & Neilson, 2012). These regulations not only establish a particular legal position for asylum seekers and differentiate them from other categories of immigrants, denizens and citizens, but also create a wide range of differentiations among asylum seekers themselves as different regulations apply to specific subcategories of asylum seekers.…”

Section: Federal Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

El-Kayed

Hamann

2018

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This article examines how state regulations, market barriers, racist discrimination as well as NGOs interact and create internal border regimes by enabling, as well as restricting, access to social and civil rights connected to housing and the freedom of movement and settlement for refugees. Our contribution builds on an analysis of federal and state regulations on housing for refugees who are either in the process of seeking asylum or have completed the process and have been granted an asylum status in Germany. The analysis aims to dissect the workings of these regulations in order to develop a detailed understanding of how these internal border regimes define barriers and access to social and civil rights. In addition to legal and regulatory barriers at the federal, state, and local levels, we identify several other barriers that affect if, how, and when refugees are able to enter local housing markets. We will examine these barriers based on an exemplary analysis of the situation in the cities of Berlin and Dresden, whereby we will apply concepts from border as well as citizenship studies to obtain a deeper understanding of the processes at hand. While contributions to the realm of border studies have so far mostly concentrated on national or EU borders, our approach follows recent literature that emphasises the need to analyse the workings of borders internal to nation-states but has so far not addressed local variations of the ways in which refugees are able to access their right to housing. In taking up this approach, we also stress the need to look at local dimensions of an increasing civic stratification of refugee rights, which past research has also conceptualised primarily on the national level. In both cities, we have collected administrative documents and conducted interviews with refugees, NGOs, and representatives from the local administration. Based on this material, we analyse the workings of administrative barriers at the state and local levels along with market barriers and discriminatory practices employed by landlords and housing companies at the local level. In most cases, these conditions restrict refugees' access to housing. We will contrast these obstacles with insight into the strategies pursued by refugees and volunteers in their efforts to find a place to live in the city.

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Section: Federal Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

El-Kayed

Hamann

2018

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“…The type of negotiations that noncitizen actions elicit, such as unauthorised cross-border mobility, question the meaning of legal citizenship and also, crucially, enact citizenship (Hepworth, 2014a). That is, they express a form of embodied and emergent citizenship that directly undermines the legal status of (non)citizenship (Hepworth, 2014a(Hepworth, , 2014bMezzadra and Neilson, 2012).…”

Section: Citizenship Inclusion and Noncitizenshipmentioning

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Citizenship and inclusion: rethinking the analytical category of noncitizenship

Tambakaki

2015

Citizenship Studies

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The paper problematises the category of noncitizenship. It traces its trajectory in accounts of inclusive citizenship and argues that it is difficult to theorise it as a distinct theoretical category outside of citizenship. To support this argument, the paper distinguishes between a pluralist, political, and democratic variant of accounts of inclusive citizenship; and it shows how they all end up reducing noncitizenship to a journey to citizenship. To overcome this limit, the paper develops the idea of subversive politicisation and suggests that injustices and inequalities can be challenged without falling back on the vocabulary of citizenship.

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“…Some works explicitly recognize Bourdieu's role as an early theorist of relational spaces (e.g. Mezzadra and Neilson 2012;Hanquinet et al 2012). Yet in this context his thinking has received surprisingly little attention even though Bourdieu himself describes field theory broadly as a relational exploration into "social topology" (Bourdieu 1985: 723).…”

Section: Children's Rights Advocacy As a Transnational Field: A Bourdmentioning

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Children's rights advocacy as transnational citizenship

Häkli

Kallio

2015

Global Networks

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This paper develops conceptual tools for analyzing the practices of children's rights organizations and professionals as transnational citizenship. To this end, we set out to trace a continuum of citizenship practices where global and local influences and forces enmesh in ways that cannot be grasped if the two are treated as separate realms. To theorize the social dynamism and spatial constitution of transnational citizenship as a local-global continuum, we turn to Bourdieuan field theoretical thinking. By analyzing the handling of the Finnish Periodic Report on children's rights by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the mobilization of its recommendations by Finnish children's rights advocates, we show that transnational citizenship in the field of children's rights is practiced not merely 'out there' but also 'right here'. We conclude by discussing what novel insights field theory has to offer to the study of advocacy practices as transnational citizenship.

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Between Inclusion and Exclusion: On the Topology of Global Space and Borders

Cited by 200 publications

References 28 publications

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

Refugees’ Access to Housing and Residency in German Cities: Internal Border Regimes and Their Local Variations

Citizenship and inclusion: rethinking the analytical category of noncitizenship

Children's rights advocacy as transnational citizenship

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