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1 online resource (vii, 251 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through the dynamics of particular border spaces: refugee camps, border zones and detention centres. She explores how irregular migrants are impacted by the increasingly security-oriented practices of border control, and how they confront these practices. Johnson rejects the characterization of border spaces as exceptional, abject and exclusionary, arguing instead for an understanding of politics as everyday contestation that reveals a radical political agency, re-imagining the global non-citizen as a transgressive and powerful figure. Building on recent scholarship that rethinks irregularity and non-citizenship, her conclusions have broad implications for how we understand irregular migration from a position of dialogue and solidarity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: situating migrant narratives in irregularity -- 2. Narratives and moments -- 3. From forced and voluntary to irregular and regular -- 4. Framing the migration regime in border control -- 5. Rethinking irregularity -- 6. Camps and detention centres: spaces containing irregularity -- 7. The other side of the fence -- 8. Irregularizing agency -- Conclusion: stories about migration -- Appendix: list of interviews. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Border security -- Social aspects.
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Border security -- Social aspects. |
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Border security. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. |
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Refugees -- Government policy.
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Refugees -- Government policy. |
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Migrant labor -- Government policy.
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Migrant labor -- Government policy. |
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Migrant labor. |
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Refugee camps.
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Refugee camps. |
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Noncitizen detention centers.
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Noncitizen detention centers. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Heather L., 1980- Borders, asylum and global non-citizenship. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107061835 (DLC) 2014007598 (OCoLC)874732639 |
| ISBN |
9781316009215 (electronic book) |
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1316009211 (electronic book) |
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9781316004715 (electronic book) |
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1316004716 (electronic book) |
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9781107449404 (electronic book) |
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1107449405 (electronic book) |
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9781316006979 (electronic book) |
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1316006972 (electronic book) |
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9781107640917 (paperback) |
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1107640911 |
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9781107061835 (hardback) |
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1107061830 (hardback) |
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113999087X |
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9781139990875 |
| Standard No. |
40023969073 |
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