Mobilities, Politics, and Solidarities

Kynsilehto, Anitta

doi:10.1080/10402659.2017.1272303

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“…They may involve temporary camps and other detention zones in informal spaces or outside the traditional spaces of the state (Davies and Isakjee 2015;Davies, Isakjee, and Dhesi 2017;Rygiel 2011;Deleixhe 2019), creating a zone of indistinction where migrants can be killed or harmed with impunity. For example, increasingly militarized border control makes migrant passage and entry ever more dangerous, exposing migrants to the bare life as they regularly encounter violence and death (Kynsilehto 2017;Gilmartin and Kuusisto-Arponen 2019;Jones and Johnson 2016;Squire 2017;Davitti 2018;Cuttitta and Last 2019;Rygiel 2016). In the biopolitical sense, border control allows the sovereign ultimate control over death through systematic neglect or "violent inaction" by the state (Doty 2011;Davies, Isakjee and Dhesi 2017).…”

Section: Securitization: Strategic Discursive Otheringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

Schenk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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Migrants are an easy, visible Other, seeming to fall neatly into the us-versus-them framework of nationalism. Nevertheless, much of the scholarly approach to migrant identity, with the partial exception of a largely separate literature on citizenship, has eschewed overt ties to nationalism studies. When us-versus-them language is used in relation to nationalism, the focus or nodal point is the identity of the seemingly homogenous “us” of the nation. However, when migrants are othered, the focus is not always the nation, and while othering migrants always creates exclusion, it is not always exclusion from a nation or identity group. This state of the field article analyzes the literature on populism, securitization, biopolitics, and other critical scholarship related to the issue of othering migrants. In each of these bodies of work, different sets of “us” are set against migrants, some of which evoke identity and others of which do not, elucidating the links (or the lack thereof) of each approach to the study of nationalism. In each of these frameworks, the migrant Other comes up against a different frame of reference, leaving migrants themselves (or any sense of migrant identity) somewhat lost amid the analytical frameworks, at continual risk of being re-othered as victims of circumstance without agency.

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Section: Securitization: Strategic Discursive Otheringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

Schenk

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…298-9). These "deaths at the border" of the EU, an ongoing and persistent issue, have come under more sustained scrutiny in recent years with the advent of the so-called migrant or refugee crisis (Kynsilehto 2017). This particular crisis is defined in terms of a rapid increase in the numbers of people seeking to enter Europe, often along hazardous routes.…”

Section: The Bordermentioning

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Borders and bodies: siting critical geographies of migration

Gilmartin¹,

Kuusisto–Arponen²

2019

Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration

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“…Despite it being pivotal in the planning of the journeys, in the actual exhibition the acknowledgement of continuities of struggles finds less space. By this I refer to continuities of these mobilities and the bordering processes that have sought to halt them, rendering only particular sites visible at a given time, in a crisis mode that has been analysed as one of legitimisation (Collyer and King 2016) or of political decision-making (Kynsilehto 2017a) instead of a refugee crisis as such. In the meantime, this selective memorizing undermines the complex corporeal choreographies (Väyrynen et al 2017) border struggles signify, swiping away the ways in which different locations have been subject to massive mediatisation over the years.…”

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“…Whilst the broader and punctuated border critique is necessary, some advice could be taken from the ethnographic value of humility, of the constantly looming possibility of not getting it quite right, of not quite knowing (Cabot 2016). This kind of humility might, perhaps, contribute to conveying also the sense of unpredictability of borders and bordering processes, in the face of which solidarity advocates, ethnographers and people on the move share the condition of incomprehension (Kynsilehto 2017a(Kynsilehto , 2017bPerl and Strasser 2018).…”

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Bearing Witness to Violence at Borders: Intermingling Artistic and Ethnographic Encounters

Kynsilehto

2019

The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe

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The starting point of this essay was a visit to the Finnish contemporary artist Riiko Sakkinen's exhibition Closing borders (Mänttä 2017(Mänttä -2018. The exhibition portrayed various border locations both at the external borders of the territory of the European Union as well as within this territory, building on the artist's visits to these sites over the year 2016. Many of these places are the same ones where I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork on migrant journeys and solidarity practices since 2010. This essay brings together the analysis of these artistic works (collages, drawings, installations) and the book produced as accompanying material to the exhibition, and ethnographic material (field notes, interviews with people on the move and local solidarity activists) collected at some of the same sites. The essay examines border politics, practices of knowledge formation via responsible witnessing, and multiple forms of enacting resistance to violence at borders. With this backdrop, I ask what the exhibition rendered visible in terms of ongoing struggles at these sites and what remained hidden, arguing that while it is important to document the forms of violence, it would also be necessary to recognize ongoing forms of resistance and the continuities of these struggles in order to reach beyond the mediatised spectacle.

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Mobilities, Politics, and Solidarities

Cited by 3 publications

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The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

The Migrant Other: Exclusion without Nationalism?

Borders and bodies: siting critical geographies of migration

Bearing Witness to Violence at Borders: Intermingling Artistic and Ethnographic Encounters

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