1st Edition

Migration, Security, and Resistance Global and Local Perspectives

Edited By Graham Hudson, Idil Atak Copyright 2022
272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores the digitization, privatization, and spatial displacement of border security and the effects these have on political accountability and migrant rights. The governance of security and migration is unfolding in new political spaces. Cooperation and competition among immigration officials, border guards, transnational security corporations, IT companies, local police, and... Read more

Introduction

Graham Hudson and Idil Atak

Part I: Security and surveillance

1. Refugee system as a bordering site: security, surveillance, and the rights of asylum seekers in Canada

Idil Atak, Claire Ellis, and Zainab Abu Alrob

2. European Union information systems for border and migration enforcement: trajectories, programmatics, and uses

Julien Jeandesboz

3. Surveillance sovereignty: migration management technologies and the politics of privatization

Petra Molnar

4. Privatization of security, border management, and defense in the EU: does reliance on tech companies erode states’ sovereignty?

Eleftherios Chelioudakis

5. Urban securitization and inland border enforcement

Graham Hudson and Sasha Kovalchuk

Part II: Rescaling resistance: local and global perspectives

6. Local resistance to outlawing sanctuary in Texas: changing forms of US migratory governance in the protection of undocumented migrants’ rights

Benjamin Bruce

7. Municipal immigration policing and resistance to internal bordering in Canada

David Moffette

8. Urban sanctuary and solidarity: a global challenge to sovereignty and migrant repression? Harald Bauder

9. Border management and technology: a challenge to the right to privacy

Elif Mendos Kuşkonmaz

10. The Marrakesh Compact: a new international framework for state cooperation on national security and migration?

Elspeth Guild

11. Migration control and resistance: toward a multiscalar approach

Anna Triandafyllidou

Biography

Graham Hudson is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Academic in the Faculty of Law, Ryerson University, Canada.

Idil Atak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law of Ryerson University, Canada.