BORDERING, DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSION/EXCLUSION AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE UK

Taking London as the research context, this article aims to explore the positioning of civil society actors in bordering the differential inclusion/exclusion of asylum seekers and refugees. To do this, and understanding borders/bordering as spaces and social institutions, the article investigates th...

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Published inInternational journal of urban and regional research Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 65 - 81
Main Author Koca, Burcu Toğral
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.2022
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
bordering
Borders
Civil society
differential inclusion/exclusion
Empirical analysis
Housing market
Labor market
London
Neoliberalism
Political asylum
Political systems
Positioning
Refugees
Social institutions
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Summary:Taking London as the research context, this article aims to explore the positioning of civil society actors in bordering the differential inclusion/exclusion of asylum seekers and refugees. To do this, and understanding borders/bordering as spaces and social institutions, the article investigates the ways in which civil society actors intervene against bordering, with a particular focus on the labour market and housing. The empirical analysis illustrates that civil society actors seek to open up new spaces of inclusion and new subject positions for refugees and asylum seekers other than those imposed by established bordering processes. However, the capacity of civil society actors to contest the differential inclusion/exclusion enacted in bordering remains limited in the face of constraints produced by neoliberalization and existing political dynamics. More importantly, civil society actors are likely to align themselves with established bordering processes and structures, thus reproducing the differential exclusion/inclusion of asylum seekers and refugees.
Bibliography:I would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers and the handling editor of IJURR for their valuable and constructive comments on earlier versions of this article. This study is part of a research project which analyses the interplay between urban transformation, borders, civil society and refugees in Berlin, London and Lesbos. The research was funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin (EGP‐2018‐489).
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ISSN:1468-2427
0309-1317
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DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.13083