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UK Borderscapes: Sites of Enforcement and Resistance

UK Borderscapes: Sites of Enforcement and Resistance

Author: Kahina Le Louvier; Karen Latricia Hough
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032395500
Published In: September 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book analyses bordering practices and their negative effects as well as the many creative and often grassroots ways in which borders are resisted and reinvented.

From the hostile environment to Brexit and the Nationality and Borders Bill, the UK border regime has become increasingly strict and complex, operating both at the edge of the state and within everyday life in unprecedented ways. At the same time, this securitisation approach is often contested, and its effects are fought daily by many groups and individuals. This book explores this tension, documenting and analysing how the contemporary UK border is imagined, constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed in multiple ways. To draw together the different pieces that compose this evolving and conflicting landscape, this book uses the concept of "borderscapes", which views borders as sites of multiple tensions between hegemonic, non-hegemonic, and counter-hegemonic imaginaries and practices. This lens enables contributors to draw a multifocal overview of the UK border that includes the different human and material actors that form it, the spaces and practices they shape, and the imaginaries and counter-imaginaries that emerge from their conflictual encounters.

Bringing together contributions by researchers from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of migration and border studies, refugee studies, human geography, criminology, sociology and anthropology.

1. Introduction

Kahina Le Louvier, Karen Latricia Hough

PART I – LEGAL AND OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BORDER

2. From the Aliens Act to the ‘hostile environment’: The making of the British border control system

Evan Smith

3. Towards two-way integration: A comparative review of refugee integration strategies

Dan Fisher, Scot Hunter, Savan Qadir, Alison Phipps

4. Temporalities, dependencies and the politics of marriage migration

Eleonore Kofman, Elena Vacchelli

5. Rethinking access to asylum: Border-shifting, burden-shifting and externalisation of international protection in the light of the UK-Rwanda arrangement

Sonia Morano-Foadi, Micaela Malena

6. Politics of exhaustion at the UK border: Depoliticising suffering, invisibilising violence

Marta Welander

7. Cracks in the UK borderscape imaginary: Opportunism, fluidity, and contradictions in implementing migration controls abroad

Nicole Ostrand

PART II – LIVED EXPERIENCES OF THE BORDER AND MODES OF RESISTANCE

8. Conflicting imaginaries of the UK border and self-bordering

Karen Latricia Hough, Kahina Le Louvier

9. Evaluations of ‘opportunity’ versus ‘risk’: Vietnamese migrants’ experiences and perceptions of the UK border

Tamsin Barber, Hai Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen

10. No longer marginal: Migrant rights activism and the confrontation with everyday borders

Don Flynn