Undoing Border Imperialism

Rana, Junaid

doi:10.1080/08865655.2016.1174618

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“…Further, border management as a practice is rooted in histories of colonization and capitalism and is imbricated in their heteropatriarchal and Other‐generating forms, functions, and foundations (Gahman and Hjalmarson 2019). Harsha Walia's (2013, 5) concept of “border imperialism” “interrogates the networks of modes of governance that determine how bodies will be included within the nation state, and how territory will be controlled within and in conjunction with the dictates of global empire and transnational capitalism.” Border imperialism describes the practice of borders as a global system of power and repression that works as an instrument of segregation and a weapon of empire. It links capital flows with the creation of an exploitable migrant workforce and the ongoing dispossession and displacement of Indigenous people from Indigenous lands, connecting border regimes with colonization, racism, dispossession, and displacement.…”

Section: Trans At the Bordermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Walia's (2013) concept of border imperialism becomes important here, as we see how the border extends beyond the airport and even the IRB, and operates as a diffuse network of power mediated by global empire and transnational capitalism. As TGNC refugees navigate complex systems of healthcare, documentation, employment, and social assistance, we see how their status impacts the ways they can move through life, extending the border regime into their day‐to‐day lives.…”

Section: Tgnc Refugees In “Safe Haven” Torontomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their experiences are distinct from LGB refugees-who have been the focus of much of queer refugee studies-in their specific healthcare and documentation needs, and their specific experiences of transphobia on the street, in the rental market, and in the job market. Walia's (2013) concept of border imperialism becomes important here, as we see how the border extends beyond the airport and even the IRB, and operates as a diffuse network of power mediated by global empire and transnational capitalism. As TGNC refugees navigate complex systems of healthcare, documentation, employment, and social assistance, we see how their status impacts the ways they can move through life, extending the border regime into their day-to-day lives.…”

Section: Canada Land Of Opportunity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We focus below on the ways that the Canadian state controls the bodies of TGNC refugees and how systems of transphobia, homophobia, racism, classism, and xenophobia create barriers for TGNC refugees in accessing housing, income, healthcare, and adequate documentation. In this way, the research shows how border imperialism (Walia 2013) works to extend the border into the day‐to‐day lives of TGNC refugees. These insights were gained through 19 semi‐structured interviews done with TGNC refugees, lawyers, and front‐line workers in 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.…”

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confidence: 96%

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Trans migrations: Seeking refuge in “safe haven” Toronto

Jacob

Oswin

2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Refugee narratives elicited at the Immigration and Refugee Board follow a logic of "transgender exceptionalism" and often diverge from the complexity of Trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) refugee experiences.• TGNC refugees experience barriers to accessing housing, healthcare, adequate documentation, and employment due to histories and systems of oppression. • These narratives demonstrate that the trans refugee homemaking process is implicated in nationalism, but also shows the needs to push against this limiting frame.Trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people who make refugee claims in Canada negotiate a complex nexus of identity, belonging, and citizenship. Drawing on insights from TGNC refugees, immigration lawyers, and frontline workers, in this paper we examine the ways the state controls the trans body through the refugee claims process and in the process of integration into life in Canada, while also highlighting trans refugee methods of survival and resistance. What emerges is an understanding of the ways that refugees navigate the tension between gender, sexuality, and homecoming as both intimately felt and geopolitically managed. We convey TGNC refugee narratives to demonstrate how they both confirm and expand upon the existing literature on Canadian LGBTQ+ refugees. TGNC refugees' experiences at the Immigration and Refugee Board confirm insights from existing LGBTQ+ refugee studies. However, TGNC refugees' day-to-day lives differ significantly from LGB refugee lives as recounted in the literature. In TGNC refugees' attempts to access gender-affirming documentation, healthcare, housing, and income, they confront distinct systems of transgender exceptionalism, border imperialism, and racial and heteropatriarchal capitalism that limit their access to basic necessities and impact how they build home both conceptually and materially.

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Section: Trans At the Bordermentioning

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Section: Tgnc Refugees In “Safe Haven” Torontomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Canada Land Of Opportunity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

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Trans migrations: Seeking refuge in “safe haven” Toronto

Jacob

Oswin

2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…2017:130). The young people we worked with do not identify as Indigenous, but it is our hope that the critique presented here may find some connections to arguments extended in both Critical Latinx Indigeneities and Indigenous Studies’ focus on border refusal (Simpson 2014) and border imperialism (Walia 2013). We continue to sit with this incommensurability as we take Tuck and Yang’s (2012) critique to heart against the multicultural co‐optation of decolonisation through mere language and performance.…”

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“Stuck In‐Between”: Placing the Underdocumented Youth Movement in Georgia

Freshour

Varelas

2022

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This paper draws on participant-observation and a series of focus group interviews with TPS and DACA youth in Northeast Georgia to understand youth activism emerging from their positionality of being "stuck in-between". "Stuck in-between" captures the liminal legal status of DACA and TPS, denotes the feeling of "stuckness" in mixed-status multigenerational families, and foregrounds the profound ways in which place and race intersect with legal, social, and ideological practices of inclusion/exclusion. Underdocumented youth form multiracial coalitions, guided by Black geographies of the region, to challenge imperial borders that criminalise and (re)produce categories of vulnerability. This place in-between shapes underdocumented youth understanding of the world, informed by, rather than in competition with, Black radical visions of themselves and of the place of the US South.

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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

Esposito

Rebelo

Olanrewaju

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as “border imperialism.” Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic‐sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID‐19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased—and new—forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID‐19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact.

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Undoing Border Imperialism

Cited by 19 publications

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Trans migrations: Seeking refuge in “safe haven” Toronto

Trans migrations: Seeking refuge in “safe haven” Toronto

“Stuck In‐Between”: Placing the Underdocumented Youth Movement in Georgia

A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

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