Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability Regime

Maldonado, Marta María; Licona, Adela C.; Hendricks, Sarah E

doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1106304

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“…We situate this paper amongst the growing literature exploring the role of immobile populations in rural communities. As an extension of mobility studies, the question of immobile populations has attracted growing attention in the Global North, particularly as it relates to constrained mobility, such as related to deportability (Maldonado, Licona, & Hendricks, ), mobility regimes (see Glick Schiller & Salazar, ), or constrained access as imposed by the politics of mobility (see Cresswell, ). These studies challenge the notion of a single type of immobility and call for more nuanced attention to these populations and mobility opportunities and constraints.…”

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Immobile populations as anchors of rural ethnic identity: Contemporary Kazakh narratives of place and migration in Mongolia

Barcus

Shugatai

2018

Population Space and Place

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Migration to rapidly expanding global urban landscapes and the questions surrounding population growth in these places continue to fuel interest amongst academics, policy makers, and news outlets. Less attention is paid to those individuals who do not head for the big city, immobile populations in rural places. In this paper, we argue that rather than being "those left behind," immobile populations play a key role in maintaining and perpetuating cultural narratives for ethnic minority populations by anchoring cultural narratives to place. These narratives become reinterpreted and reimagined by outmigrants but remain firmly connected to place through immobile populations.The concept of place elasticity allows us to imagine how these local narratives of place remain intact. It describes the ways in which individuals maintain a continuous, meaningful engagement with a place, even if they reside a long distance from that place. We utilise the case study of Mongolian Kazakhs, an ethnic minority population with strong place attachments as well as significant outmigration from their rural home region in western Mongolia, to explore the idea of place elasticity and evolving place identities for rural populations in developing and transitioning countries. Through analysis of our questionnaires and life history interview data, we find that nonmigrants (immobile) facilitate rural place attachments and identities for this population. This finding suggests that rather than being "left behind," nonmigrants or immobile populations play an important role in perpetuating place identities and attachments for outmigrants.

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Immobile populations as anchors of rural ethnic identity: Contemporary Kazakh narratives of place and migration in Mongolia

Barcus

Shugatai

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…Legal geography is also a field that is concerned with the potential for the law to contribute toward furthering a social justice agenda (Delaney ). Building on ongoing conversations in the field of geography regarding the spatial nature of the migratory process, the role of cities/urban spaces in facilitating migrant inclusion, and local surveillance/policing of immigrants, we analyze the sociohistorical relationship between illegality and space, as well as this relationship's effects on young migrants’ lives, opportunities, and resistance (Ridgley ; Ehrkamp and Nagel ; Gill et al ; Wright ; Kwan and Schwanen ; Maldonado, Licona, and Hendricks ; Price and Breese ).…”

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Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

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Escudero²,

Burciaga³

2019

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Here we advance the concept of legal–spatial consciousness—an individual's awareness of how law and space are mutually formed and influential on their lives. Through this concept, we explore how undocumented youth in a variety of American destinations understand and experience migrant illegality. By examining how immigration law and local places are imbricated, we demonstrate how immigrant illegality is defined not only by a patchwork of municipal, state, and federal laws, but also by how undocumented people move through these differently legal spaces in their everyday lives. Illegality is thus continually reproduced through individuals’ im/mobility through space.

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“…Through the use of extraterritorial processing, offshore detention centers, and interdiction programs, migrants and asylum seekers are immobilized before they reach their intended destinations to seek asylum (Burridge and others ). Borders are also internalized within states through practices such as mandatory and indefinite detention, workplace raids, traffic stops, and multiscalar legal formations (Coleman and Stuesse ; Maldonado and others ; Hiemstra and Conlon ; Gorman ). Bordering, thus, can move to “where the migrant is” (Casas‐Cortes and others, , 73, quoted in Burridge and others , 242).…”

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Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆

Culcasi

Skop

Gorman

2019

Geographical Review

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While the geopolitical legacies of the World War I peace negotiations are widely recognized, this article examines the often overlooked connection between the WWI Paris Peace Conference's spatial and geopolitical logics and contemporary refugee‐border dynamics. We argue that the spatial and geopolitical logics that framed the WWI Paris Peace Conference—the creation of new states, the propagation of the Western ideal of bounded sovereign states, the nationalist goals of self‐determination and homogeneous ethnic nations, and the establishment of a system of international governance—continue to impact refugee‐border dynamics and “crises” today. The categories, ideals, and practices of the international refugee regime that emerged over the last one‐hundred years stem in great part from these logics. In this paper, we urge critical contemplation about how these foundations—including the establishment of the post of High Commissioner for Refugees in 1921, the resultant Nansen Passports, the post‐WWI minority treaties, and lastly the 1933 Convention Relating to the International Status of Refugees—connect to contemporary human (im)mobility and border violence. We also introduce the articles in this special issue and highlight key themes and future directions for research in critical migration studies.

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Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability Regime

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Immobile populations as anchors of rural ethnic identity: Contemporary Kazakh narratives of place and migration in Mongolia

Immobile populations as anchors of rural ethnic identity: Contemporary Kazakh narratives of place and migration in Mongolia

Legal–Spatial Consciousness: A Legal Geography Framework for Examining Migrant Illegality

Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆

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