Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1177/02637758231157397
Lauren L Martin, M. Tazzioli
In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers’ unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firstly, grounded in migrants’ and asylum-seekers’ carceral conditions and exclusion from paid work. Secondly, we argue that subtle forms of coercion and conditionality at work in asylum hosting require asylum-seekers’ invisible and unpaid labour. Thirdly, we show how financialised real estate firms further capitalise on government contracts for asylum housing, rendering accommodation as another site of value extraction. We thereby expand conceptualisations of carceral economies of migration control beyond detention and confinement and elaborate the specific forms of labour and value extraction emerging from migration, asylum and refugee governance.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02637758231153642
Bjørn Sletto, M. Novoa, R. Vasudevan
Drawing on the concept of ‘cuerpo-territorio,’ we conceptualize non-Western “other mappings” as situated and historical performances that center embodied experiences, such as the multiple and persistent traumas of coloniality, that are invisibilized in Cartesian cartographic processes. In doing so, these mappings unveil how Cartesian cartography does the traumatic work of coloniality while fostering alternative, embodied spatial imaginaries based on situated practices and visceral geographies. The article discusses three mapping projects completed at different times through distinct approaches in Venezuela, Chile, and the Dominican Republic to illuminate the pluriversality of subaltern geographies within the context of historical trauma. We suggest that the process of developing other mappings in tandem with communities constitutes decolonial methodologies that disrupt the notion of maps as traditionally understood and utilized in urban planning and development. Thus, we go beyond the tradition of participatory mapping as a technical means of visibilizing subaltern territorial claims, land-uses, and preservation practices by focusing on the potentials of other mappings to foster critical thinking, dialogue, and action.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02637758231157264
Beste İşleyen, Nora El Qadim
The material violence of borders and border control has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a ‘border spectacle’ (De Genova, 2002) – a nodal spectacularized meeting point between the North and the South; EUrope and ‘non-EUrope’ (Cuttitta, 2018; van Reekum, 2019). Advanced technologies of surveillance, calculation, communication, coordination and inter-ception (e.g. Andersson, 2012; Follis, 2017; _ Is¸leyen, 2021; Pallister-Wilkins, 2017; Stierl, 2021), empowered by narratives of ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ (Jeandesboz and Pallister-Wilkins, 2016), statistics (e.g. Tazzioli, 2015; van Reekum, 2019), mediatic images (Ibrahim, 2018) and cartography (Cobarrubias, 2019), have contributed to the construction of understandings of the Mediterranean as a site of violence, death, and disappearance, rather than of circulation. Furthermore, these narratives and images rely on racialized oppositions (Mainwaring and DeBono, 2021) which draw and redraw the Mediterranean as a demarcation separating EUrope from its ‘Others.’ In contrast to these dominant perceptions of the Mediterranean as a borderzone constituted by EUrope and policed in cooperation with a co-opted (or enlisted) “South”, 1 a plethora of academic work has shown that the Mediterranean has historically been shaped by multiple forms of connectivity.
{"title":"Border and im/mobility entanglements in the Mediterranean: Introduction to the special issue","authors":"Beste İşleyen, Nora El Qadim","doi":"10.1177/02637758231157264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231157264","url":null,"abstract":"The material violence of borders and border control has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a ‘border spectacle’ (De Genova, 2002) – a nodal spectacularized meeting point between the North and the South; EUrope and ‘non-EUrope’ (Cuttitta, 2018; van Reekum, 2019). Advanced technologies of surveillance, calculation, communication, coordination and inter-ception (e.g. Andersson, 2012; Follis, 2017; _ Is¸leyen, 2021; Pallister-Wilkins, 2017; Stierl, 2021), empowered by narratives of ‘crisis’ and ‘emergency’ (Jeandesboz and Pallister-Wilkins, 2016), statistics (e.g. Tazzioli, 2015; van Reekum, 2019), mediatic images (Ibrahim, 2018) and cartography (Cobarrubias, 2019), have contributed to the construction of understandings of the Mediterranean as a site of violence, death, and disappearance, rather than of circulation. Furthermore, these narratives and images rely on racialized oppositions (Mainwaring and DeBono, 2021) which draw and redraw the Mediterranean as a demarcation separating EUrope from its ‘Others.’ In contrast to these dominant perceptions of the Mediterranean as a borderzone constituted by EUrope and policed in cooperation with a co-opted (or enlisted) “South”, 1 a plethora of academic work has shown that the Mediterranean has historically been shaped by multiple forms of connectivity.","PeriodicalId":48303,"journal":{"name":"Environment and Planning D-Society & Space","volume":"71 1","pages":"3 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90506821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02637758231152478
Nina Perkowski, M. Stierl, A. Burridge
Crisis narratives are widespread in migration and border governance globally, including in EUrope. In response, a body of scholarship that critically scrutinizes crisis narratives and imaginaries has emerged. Building on and further extending this scholarship, this article questions the dichotomy between ‘normality’ and ‘crisis’ in border governance. Focusing on four moments in which crises were declared in relation to migration and EUropean borders and their immediate aftermath, we examine how the European Union border agency Frontex framed these events through an analysis of its press releases, annual reports, and practices. In so doing, we argue that narratives pertaining to border practices beyond moments of ‘crisis’ invoke fears of uncontrolled mass migration of unruly ‘others’ as an ever-present possibility and perpetual threat to EUrope. Within this article, we propose a differentiation between protracted and acute crisis narratives. Focusing on the political work that these two narratives do in relation to EUropean border governance, we demonstrate that the interplay between these crises narratives has contributed to Frontex’s evolution and expansion over the last two decades while further consolidating the externalization and fortification of EUropean borders.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02637758221137345
Noemi Bergesio, Luiza Bialasiewicz
This article examines some of the contested geographical imaginaries of the so-called “Balkan Route” as part of the wider Mediterranean migration complex. More specifically, we interrogate how such varied imaginaries of the Route contribute to shaping conflicting geographies of responsibility for migration in the region among a shifting set of international and state actors. We highlight how the attribution of responsibility for the governance of migration is shaped by numerous geographical and historical entanglements, including on-going processes of post-conflict state-making and the geopolitics of European Union accession, with migrants becoming pawns in the negotiation of preferential relations between the countries of the region and the European Union. Focusing in particular on the framing of migration policy responses along the Croatia–Bosnia and Italy–Slovenia sections of the Route, we examine the perspectives of both policy-makers and solidarity networks active in the area, noting how their divergent narratives contribute to the proliferation of conflicting formal and informal practices of border control.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-28DOI: 10.1177/02637758231153399
Hannah Della Bosca
This paper argues that sensory practices that insulate individual bodies from the effects of climate disruption may enable and perpetuate a distinct form of climate change denial. Existing scholarship has established the ways in which climate-modifying technologies, such as air conditioning, reconfigure socio-ecological relationships through sensory norms. This paper extends this analysis by relating these sensory norms to contemporary discourses on climate denial. Drawing on a heatwave case study in Western Sydney, Australia, the paper explores how practices of thermal comfort for particular, often privileged, bodies may be understood as sensory enablers of climate change denial. This work encourages theoretical movement beyond the scientific and political disembodiment that often characterises contemporary climate change denial discourse, and urges greater attention to the sensory drivers of climate-related behaviours, experiences, and perceptions. This sensory approach may allow theoretical and strategic engagement with otherwise hidden social barriers to sustainable climate interventions and action.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1177/02637758221140885
Anissa Maâ
The intricate relationship between border control and migrations is the core puzzle of this paper, which takes voluntary returns from Morocco as a case study and autonomy of migration (AoM) as a theoretical framework. More precisely, the paper examines voluntary returns from the perspective of migrants themselves to grasp border control through the lens of its disputed, distorted and sometimes subverted implementation. The paper draws on data collected during fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Morocco, including ethnographic observations and interviews with staff from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), migrants and local intermediaries. It focuses on the case of sub-Saharan migrants leaving Morocco through “Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration” programmes led by IOM and confronts empirical data with the AoM theoretical framework. The paper demonstrates that migrants’ entangled appropriations of return are defined in close relationship with a wide range of actors intervening during the process of return. Ultimately, migrants reformulate the meaning of their involvement in voluntary return into strategic, moral, relative, and symbolic terms. However, these entangled appropriations of a deportation device simultaneously reinforce social norms and institutional regulations underlying migration dynamics and border control. Eventually, the paper draws conclusions on the political effects of migrants' entangled appropriation of a deportation device on the production of intertwined im/mobility regimes between the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1177/02637758221146179
M. Barra
This article considers how to rethink ecological restoration as a process tethered to ongoing formulations of racial and environmental justice. It is situated in the context of coastal Louisiana's wetland loss crisis and the state's unprecedented investment in large-scale wetland restoration projects as a technoscientific fix that comes at the expense of several small, Black and Indigenous bayou communities. Critical of approaching restoration as a practice predicated on loss and return, this article builds upon scholarship in Black and Indigenous ecologies and ethnographic fieldwork among Black coastal communities in southeast Louisiana to reimagine restoration as an intergenerational, socioecological set of practices grounded in cultivating cultural continuity and community care across time and space. Working with the Black feminist geographic concepts of the plot and the shoal, the article develops the notion alternative restorations—or restoration otherwise—around three reformulations of restoration: As a practice of cultural continuity, as a mode of cultivating self-reliance, and as a scientific practice of integrity and humility. It concludes by reflecting the ways Black ecological practices and values can shift the course of restoration science toward sustaining Black life in the era of climate change.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1177/02637758221148733
P. Narayan
Peripheral urbanization is the predominant mode of producing space in the Global South, in which residents build their own homes and neighborhoods, becoming citizens and political agents in the process. In this article, I bring feminist ethnographic attention to community infrastructure such as childcare centers built collectively by women residents in MGR Nagar, an informal urban settlement in Chennai, India, as understudied examples of autoconstruction in peripheral urbanization. Marxist feminism enables a theorization of these infrastructures of social reproduction as urban commons that assert collective spatial autonomy and enable moral claims on urban space, while serving the everyday needs of its residents. The subsequent demolition of the childcare center caused symbolic and material loss to residents. However, the ceding of territorial autonomy and spatial privileges was a way for them to make new material and political gains in the city, suggesting that a feminist politics of space is possible in which legitimacy and responsibility are demanded from the state. The commons in turn can be seen as durable countertopographies enabling a politics of place in multiple locations.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1177/02637758221140121
Zeynep Kaşlı
Migration and border studies have reconceptualized and examined borders as sites of contestation, stressing the productive effects of (illegalized) migration control on established notions of citizenship. These accounts have predominantly focused on illegalized migration and on contemporary contestations around these mobilities. This article expands these efforts by suggesting that migration control and contestations (and the limits thereof) can be understood only by considering the dynamic yet historically and geographically specific modes of any given border, which I aim to capture through the concept of regime of bordering. This concept refers to the fact that contemporary borders against illegalized migration are founded on pre-existing regimes of citizenship, bilateral relations, and migration. My historically informed ethnographic research on both sides of the Greek–Turkish border in Thrace demonstrates the continuing impact of unresolved bilateral disputes and centralized state power in a highly militarized region to align state and nonstate actors with migration control at an “external border” of the EU. Studying politics of migration control from a long durée perspective and as part of a composite regime of bordering takes us beyond a “presentist” view on recent contestations around illegalized migration, deepening our understanding of (the lack of) local acts of citizenship.
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