The Contested Politics of Mobility Borderzones and irregularity

• Main Author: Squire, Vicki
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2011; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
• Subjects: Border regions; Critical Security; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration - Political aspects; Illegal immigration; International Relations; Migration & Diaspora; Political conditions; Political control; Political geography; Population movements; Regulation; Deportable Labour; Inda 2006a; E-border Programs; Trusted Traveler Programs; Migration Approach; Peter Nyers; Dislocated Subjectivities; irregular; genova; Irregular Migrant; Emergency Travel Documents; alien; UK's Identity; migrant; Workplace Raid; Sandro Mezzadra; EU Migration Policy; Irma Van Der Ploeg; Irregular Citizenship; nicholas; Smart Border; Irregular Migration; citizenship; Illegal Citizenship; Mobile Body; illegal; Undocumented Migrants; Van Der Ploeg; undocumented; Nicholas De Genova; Salvadoran Civil War; migrants; migration; Irregularizing Borders; De Genova
• ISBN: 9780415584616; 0415584612; 041553836X; 9780415538367
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203839829

Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an 'analytic of irregularity'. It brings together authors who address issues of mobility and irregularity from a range of distinct perspectives, to focus on the politics of control as well as the politics of migration. The volume develops an account of irregularity as a produced, ambivalent and contested socio-political condition, showing how this is activated through wide-ranging 'borderzones' that pull between migration and control. Covering cases from across contemporary North America and Europe and examining a range of control mechanisms, such as biometrics, deportation and workplace raiding, the volume refuses the term 'illegal' to describe movements of people across borders. In so doing, it highlights the complexity of relations between different regions and between a politics of migration and a politics control, and makes a timely intervention in the intersecting fields of critical citizenship, migration and security studies. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, international relations, sociology, migration and law.