Bordering

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Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about much more than patrolling territorial boundaries at the edges of states: it now comprises a multitude of practices that take place at different levels, some at the edges of states and some in the local contexts of everyday life – in workplaces, in hospitals, in schools – which, taken together, construct, reproduce and contest borders and the rights and obligations associated with belonging to a nation-state. This book is a systematic exploration of the practices and processes that now define state bordering and the role it plays in national and global governance. Based on original research, it goes well beyond traditional approaches to the study of migration and racism, showing how these processes affect all members of society, not just the marginalized others. The uncertainties arising from these processes mean that more and more people find themselves living in grey zones, excluded from any form of protection and often denied basic human rights. Cover ......Page 1 Title page......Page 4 Copyright page......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Bordering: In-between the political and the sociocultural......Page 15 Bordering and neoliberal globalisation......Page 20 From borders to bordering: The processual turn......Page 29 Everyday intersectional bordering......Page 35 Outline of the book......Page 39 Introduction......Page 41 Premodern borderings......Page 42 Modernity and bordering: The long eighteenth century......Page 45 Bordering in the aftermath of the First World War......Page 51 Bordering in the aftermath of the Second World War......Page 53 The collapse of state socialism and EU enlargement......Page 57 Neoliberalism and its crises......Page 59 The rise of absolutist movements......Page 63 Bordering in the context of the violent conflicts, neoliberal developments, and ecological crises of the Global South......Page 66 Journeys towards the ‘global migration crisis’......Page 68 Rebordering......Page 70 Conclusion......Page 73 Introduction......Page 75 Filtering citizenship......Page 76 Filtering labour......Page 78 Filtering families......Page 79 Bordering scape 1: ‘External’ border control points: visas, airports, train stations, seaports......Page 80 Fast-tracking to multiple citizenship and to belonging......Page 81 Differential visa-free travel to and from the United Kingdom......Page 83 Work-related visas: UK citizenship and belonging......Page 84 Tourists: short-term consumers......Page 86 Border guarding at the territorial borders......Page 89 Bordering scape 2: Firewall bordering at the ‘internal’ border control point of registry offices......Page 91 Enforcement performances and public reporting......Page 93 Perspectives from secular and religious registrars......Page 94 Perspectives from the targets of marriage-bordering regulations......Page 97 Bordering scape 3: Firewall bordering, ‘external’ and ‘internal’ bordering encounters experienced by Eastern European Roma and Nepali Army families......Page 99 The bordering discourse on loyalty and criminality......Page 100 Nepali......Page 101 Roma......Page 103 Conclusion......Page 106 Introduction......Page 108 Everyday bordering in the contemporary global context......Page 109 Everyday bordering via police and street-level bureaucrats......Page 110 Everyday bordering via ID documents......Page 112 Everyday bordering in Britain: Constructing the ‘hostile environment’......Page 113 Operation Skybreaker......Page 116 Perspectives of border enforcement professionals......Page 117 Perspectives from ethnic minority employers and employees......Page 118 Perspectives from EU employees......Page 120 Perspectives from metropolitan professionals......Page 122 Bordering scape 5: Accommodation......Page 123 Perspectives from landlords......Page 125 Perspectives from tenants......Page 127 Everyday bordering and homeless people......Page 129 Bordering scape 6: Education......Page 131 Perspectives from further and higher education......Page 132 Perspectives from schools......Page 136 Conclusion......Page 138 Introduction......Page 141 Grey zones in the contemporary global context......Page 142 Grey zones: Gaps between different constructions of ‘migrants’ in national and international discourses......Page 143 Grey zones: Offshoring processes......Page 145 Grey zones: Historical trajectories of de and rebordering processes......Page 147 Bordering scape 7: The Jungle in Calais......Page 148 The 2015 Jungle camp......Page 150 Campzenship......Page 151 Everyday lives in the grey zone......Page 152 Irregular migrants’ legal status......Page 155 Limboscapes of life in the United Kingdom......Page 156 Bordering scape 9: Post-borderland Dover......Page 162 Stuckness in unemployment......Page 163 Stuckness in immobility......Page 165 Stuckness in disconnection......Page 167 Conclusion......Page 169 6 Conclusion Understanding Bordering......Page 171 Bordering as central to and constitutive of social processes......Page 172 Bordering as political discourse and practice of governance and belonging......Page 174 Bordering as an outcome and a cause of social inequalities......Page 176 Bordering as a situated endeavour......Page 178 Bordering and transversal political epistemology......Page 179 Resisting everyday bordering......Page 181 References......Page 186 Index......Page 220 EULA ......Page 234