Women's experiences of border crossing: gender, mobility and border control

Matos, Raquel; Esposito, Francesca

doi:10.1504/ijmbs.2019.10027301

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“…When Francesca first met Ali, he complained about the bad quality of food provided, the void he experienced due to forced inactivity and limited access to the outdoor grounds. However, a great deal of his distress was caused by the uncertainty regarding his case, rendered more acute by the lack of information and especially of legal support (Provedor de Justiça 2019;Matos and Esposito 2019). Understandably enough, detention was a cause of acute suffering: I became completely lost, since I lost my hopes, desires, I couldn't see my future.…”

Section: From Pakistan To Portugal: Infrastructures Of Containment Through Preventive Illegalisation Spatial Confinement and Temporal Susmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes

Esposito¹,

Murtaza²,

Peano³

et al. 2021

Material Politics of Citizenship

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Several authors have contended recently that the rationality of contemporary migration control can be most adequately grasped by the notion of 'containment', conceived as the redirection of people's autonomous movement into restricted and defined pathways. Following this idea, this article proceeds in three steps. First, it proposes an analysis of the 'infrastructures' through which containment is enforced, showing the plural dimensions (regulatory, humanitarian, commercial, social) of which they are composed. Second, analysing two cases of transnational mobility towards (and across) the EU, it shows the effect of containment on people's spatial and existential trajectories. And third, through the analysis of such cases, it contends that the ultimate effect of containment is the fragmentation of citizenship into a variety of intermediate 'latitudinal' positions characterised by partial and conditional access to rights, which are functional to several forms of exploitation, including labour but also profit extraction through the operations of containment infrastructures themselves.

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Section: From Pakistan To Portugal: Infrastructures Of Containment Through Preventive Illegalisation Spatial Confinement and Temporal Susmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes

Esposito¹,

Murtaza²,

Peano³

et al. 2021

Material Politics of Citizenship

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“…As we will point out in the following sections, troublesome journeys characterised by exclusion, confinement and exploitation may result not only from the refusal of a demand for a visa or international protection, but also from the process of hierarchical inclusion on which these latter are based (Vacchiano 2018). However, people who are targeted by mobility control also display an extraordinary ability to resist containment and its multiple infrastructures (Bosworth 2014;Esposito et al 2019bEsposito et al , 2019aMatos and Esposito 2019;Peano 2012). Indeed, as evidenced by our protagonists' stories, they struggle to contrast criminalisation and to (re)enact autonomous strategies of movement and existence (see Scheel 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%