Polymorphic borders

Burridge, Andrew; Gill, Nicholas; Kocher, Austin; Martin, Lauren

doi:10.1080/21622671.2017.1297253

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“…Using “front end” enforcement to prevent people from reaching the destination country (Mountz 2011, 382) results in polymorphic (Burridge et al. 2017) or arterial borders (Vogt 2018, 8), as bordering flows through and beyond national boundaries.…”

Section: Between Leaving and Arriving: Inhabiting The Space Of Transitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the space of transit, care and humanitarian aid may also reinforce the work of bordering (Burridge et al. 2017), as shelters across Mexico have aligned with humanitarian frameworks that see migrants as victims in need of protection specifically from smugglers (Doering‐White 2018, 443). Most scholars who have conducted fieldwork in shelters in Mexico have found a complicated relationship between the official prohibition of smugglers inside shelters and the actual reality where the presence of smugglers is tacitly tolerated (see Balaguera 2018; Brigden 2018; Guevara González 2018; Vogt 2018).…”

Section: Between Good and Bad: Migrant/victim/smugglermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Stuck in Motion: Inhabiting the Space of Transit in Central American Migration

Frank‐Vitale

2020

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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R e s u m e n En este artículo examino lo que significa habitar el espacio de tránsito. Propongo un análisis enfocado en el "medio", abordándolo como tal y no en relación con los lugares y momentos que quedan a ambos extremos. Este trabajo responde a estos cuestionamientos para centrarse en la travesía migratoria, agregando una lente antropológica a la condición humana de encontrase en el medio. Analizo la migración de los centroamericanos indocumentados en México y detallo cómo la criminalización de los migrantes y el enfoque en torno a sus cuidados durante el tránsito, empujan a las personas a un mayor movimiento. Utilizando reportes de los traficantes de migrantes y de migrantes victimizados, muestro cómo el régimen de migración regional produce y perpetúa el movimiento clandestino, lo que mantiene a muchos migrantes atascados en movimiento. A medida que más personas son obligadas a habitar en el espacio de tránsito, es fundamental comprender los roles que allí se producen, cómo se reacciona a ellos y cómo son percibidos e implementados por los estados, los actores humanitarios y los mismos migrantes. [etnografía de la movilidad, tráfico de personas, migración de tránsito] [etnografía de la movilidad, tráfico de personas, migración de tránsito] A b s t r a c tIn this article, I examine what it means to inhabit the space of transit; I argue for an analysis centered on the "middle," rather than thinking of this "in between" primarily in relationship to places and moments on either side. This article answers calls to focus on the migration journey, adding an anthropological lens to the human condition of being in between. I discuss the migration of undocumented Central Americans in Mexico, and detail how both the criminalization of migrants and approaches to their care in transit push people into further motion. Using the accounts of migrant smugglers and victimized migrants, I show how the regional migration regime produces and perpetuates clandestine movement, which keeps many migrants stuck in motion. As

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Section: Between Leaving and Arriving: Inhabiting The Space Of Transitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Between Good and Bad: Migrant/victim/smugglermentioning

confidence: 99%

Stuck in Motion: Inhabiting the Space of Transit in Central American Migration

Frank‐Vitale

2020

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…The thesis is intended as a contribution to three interrelated and overlapping research areas. First, the thesis engages with the scholarly discourse on the re-spatialisation of borders (Balibar, 2004(Balibar, , 2009aBurridge, Gill, Kocher, & Martin, 2017; see Darling, 2011Darling, , 2016Sassen, 2013;Squire & Darling, 2013;Varsanyi, 2006Varsanyi, , 2010bVarsanyi, , 2010a. In particular, it seeks to develop an empirically-based analysis and argument about the strategic re-scaling and urbanisation of mobility controls.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In particular, scholars have elaborated on Balibar's observation that borders (and bordering practices) are increasingly becoming dispersed both inside and outside of state theory. In the border and migration studies literature, this is usually referred to as the simultaneous externalisation and internalisation of borders (for an overview of the field, see Burridge et al, 2017). Notably, Balibar's everywhere border hypothesis has been critiqued on two main accounts: first, for representing the border as ubiquitous, and thus conveying a vision of the state as omnipresent and all-powerful (see discussion in Burridge et al, 2017) and, second, for failing to acknowledge that the border is not equally everywhere for everyone (Johnson & Jones, 2014).…”

Section: The Border Insidementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the border and migration studies literature, this is usually referred to as the simultaneous externalisation and internalisation of borders (for an overview of the field, see Burridge et al, 2017). Notably, Balibar's everywhere border hypothesis has been critiqued on two main accounts: first, for representing the border as ubiquitous, and thus conveying a vision of the state as omnipresent and all-powerful (see discussion in Burridge et al, 2017) and, second, for failing to acknowledge that the border is not equally everywhere for everyone (Johnson & Jones, 2014). This second criticism might be a valid in the case of certain interpretations of Balibar's hypothesis, but it completely fails to address his original proposition, namely that 'the management and policing of borders establish and maintain "a world apartheid", which institutes a "colour bar" that runs through all societies' (see discussion in De Genova, 2013, p. 1192).…”

Section: The Border Insidementioning

confidence: 99%

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Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

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This thesis traces the local government response to the presence of impoverished and street-homeless so-called vulnerable EU-citizens in Malmö (Sweden's third largest city) between the years 2014-2016, and develops an analysis about how bordering takes place in cities. "Vulnerable EU-citizens" is an established term in the Swedish context, used by the authorities to refer to citizens of other EU Member States who are staying in Sweden without a right of residence and in situations of extreme poverty and marginality. A majority of those whom are categorised as "vulnerable EU-citizens" are Roma from Bulgaria or Romania. Starting from the observation that "vulnerable EU-citizens" have been pervasively problematised as unwanted migrants, the thesis asks how the municipal-and local authorities in Malmö act to discourage and otherwise manage their mobilities by controlling their conditions of stay. In doing so, it seeks to elaborate on theories about intra-EU bordering practices, and to elucidate some of the mechanisms, effects and implications of urban mobility control practices. My most sincere gratitude also goes to the scholars who so generously agreed to be discussants and readers at my (many!

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Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

Cuttitta

2020

Population Space and Place

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This paper sheds light on the role of non-governmental/civil society organisations, as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in the externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt. These organisations are involved in migration-related activities, which, from the externalisation perspective, should prevent people from attempting the sea-crossing to Europe, thus immobilising them in North Africa. The paper is an ethnographic border regime analysis drawing on extensive fieldwork. It shows that European Union-externalisation is not a univocal and smooth process. Instead, externalisation is entangled in a complex network of actors and dynamics. Measures meant to support externalisation may produce effects contrary to those envisaged, whereas practices accomplishing externalisation goals may be in fact the result of internalisation. By analysing the various actors in their diverse practices and in their-sometimes conflictual-relationships, the paper also tries to minimise state-centrism and Euro-centrism in the study of externalisation.

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Polymorphic borders

Cited by 111 publications

References 65 publications

Stuck in Motion: Inhabiting the Space of Transit in Central American Migration

Stuck in Motion: Inhabiting the Space of Transit in Central American Migration

Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

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