The slow violence of life without cash: borders, state restrictions, and exclusion in the U.K. and Australia ⋆

Coddington, Kate

doi:10.1111/gere.12332

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“…As Andrew Burridge and others () argue, bordering practices have many “forms, agents, sites, practices and targets” (239). Though all the articles in this special issue recognize different bordering practices, Kate Coddington's () article does so pointedly. In her article, “Slow Violence of Life Without Cash: Borders, State Restrictions, and Exclusion in the UK and Australia,” she provides a critique of humanitarian aid, framing it as a form of daily control and border securitization.…”

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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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Section: Article Overviewsmentioning

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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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“…From 2009 to 2017, refused asylum seekers were limited to approved retailers, which greatly restricted what people could purchase-even creating issues with subsistence-and where people could shop. Shame and harassment accompanied use of the card, and asylum seekers experienced racist or discriminatory behaviors (Coddington 2019). Like the Azure Card before it, the ASPEN card produces data about what and where people purchase goods.…”

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Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Coddington

Conlon

Martin

2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies, including border encampment in Thailand, deprivation in U.S. immigration detention centers, and deterrence through destitution in the United Kingdom, demonstrate that circuits of value depend on the detachment of workers from citizenship and simultaneously produce both migrant destitution and new forms of value production. Within destitution economies, migration and asylum's particular juridico-political position as domestic, foreign, and securitized allows legal regimes to produce migrants and asylum seekers as distinct economic subjects: forsaken recipients of aid. Although they might also work for pay, we argue that destitute migrants and asylum seekers have value for others through the grinding labor of living in poverty. That is, in their categorization as migrants and asylum seekers, they occupy a particular position in relation to economic circuits. These economic circuits of migration control, in turn, rely on the destitution of mobile people. Our approach advances political geographies of migration, bordering, and exclusion as well as economic geographies of marketization and value, arguing that the predominance of political analysis and critique of immigration and asylum regimes obscures how those regimes produce circuits of value in and through law, state practices, and exclusion. Furthermore, law, state power, and forced mobility constitute circuits of value and marketization. Conceptualizing these migration control practices as destitution economies illuminates novel transformations of the political and economic geographies of migration, borders, and inequality.

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“…Clashes at the border fence and dramatic rescues at sea have a less visible other, the slow violence of long months and years on the street, scraping by while nursing dreams of a better future in Europe. As Kate Coddington (2019) points out, though academic and popular attention is drawn to the spectacle of fences and walls, today’s border governmentality disciplines migrants on a quotidian basis through entwined logics of care and control that enable them to survive but not thrive, to be present but not belong (see also Coddington et al., 2018; İşleyen, 2019).…”

Section: Respatializing the Border: From Edges To Interiormentioning

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Contained and abandoned in the “humane” border: Black migrants’ immobility and survival in Moroccan urban space

Gross-Wyrtzen

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article examines the effects of Morocco’s new, “humane” migration policy that claimed to center human rights and integration over securitized border enforcement. Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper demonstrates how the new migration policy expanded rather than dismantled the border regime, respatializing it from the edges of Moroccan territory into cities in the interior. Border respatialization was accomplished through abandonment, theorized not as an absence of government but a technique of governance that targets the racialized poor. Focusing on the experiences of migrants living in two urban spaces—an informal migrant settlement and a working-class neighborhood—this paper illustrates how abandonment limits black migrants’ ability to move and transgress the border, and how these effects have site-specific, as well as racial and gendered dimensions. This analysis underscores how humanitarian migration policy may have changed the modality of border violence, but not its substance.

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The slow violence of life without cash: borders, state restrictions, and exclusion in the U.K. and Australia ⋆

Cited by 33 publications

References 32 publications

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

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

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, and Migration Control

Contained and abandoned in the “humane” border: Black migrants’ immobility and survival in Moroccan urban space

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