1st Edition

The Contested Politics of Mobility Borderzones and Irregularity

Edited By Vicki Squire Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. The Contested Politics of Mobility: Politicising Mobility, Mobilising Politics Vicki Squire Part 1: Politicising Mobility 2. Politicising Mobility Vicki Squire 3. Freedom and speed in enlarged borderzones Didier Bigo 4. Rezoning the Global: Technological Zones, Technological Work, and the (Un-) Making of Biometric Borders William Walters 5. Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Migrant Counterconducts Jonathan Xavier Inda 6. Alien Powers: Deportable Labour and the Spectacle of Security Nicholas De Genova Part 2: Mobilising Politics 7. Mobilising Politics Vicki Squire 8. The Gaze of Autonomy: Capitalism, Migration and Social Struggles Sandro Mezzadra translated by Rodrigo Nunes 9. Governing Borderzones of Mobility through E-borders: The Politics of Embodied Mobility Kim Rygiel 10. Legal Exclusion and Dislocated Subjectivities: The Deportation of Salvadoran Youth from the United States Susan Bibler Coutin 11. Forms of irregular citizenship Peter Nyers 12. Citizens despite borders: Challenges to the Territorial Order of Europe Enrica Rigo 13. Epilogue, The Movements of Politics: Logics, Subjects, Citizenships Engin Isin  

Biography

Vicki Squire is RCUK research fellow at the Centre of Citizenship, Identities and Governance and the Department of Politics and International Studies, the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on issues of migration, citizenship and security. She is author of The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum (2009).