Synopses & Reviews
The concepts of 'citizenship' and 'border' have rarely been systematically brought together. New Border and Citizenship Politics challenges this, examining the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics. Case-studies from the United States, Europe, the Mediterranean and Australia illuminate the connections, exploring the politics of redesigning borders, technologies of bordering and citizenship as border politics. The collection offers comprehensive coverage of bordering dynamics by transcending a state-centered perspective and taking the political agency of migrants into account, approaching the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon, focusing on its dynamic, conflictive and productive character. Arguing that international borders are key sites of regulation and struggles about belonging and mobility, the contributors stress the contested politics around borders and citizenship, and migrants themselves become both subjects and objects of politics.
Synopsis
This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective.
About the Author
Helen Schwenken is Helen Schwenken is Professor of Migration and Society at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Research (IMIS), University of Osnabrück, Germany. She is also a coordinator of the Global Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights.
Sabine Ruß-Sattar is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty for Social Sciences at the University of Kassel, Germany.
Table of Contents
New Border and Citizenship Politics: An Introduction; Helen Schwenken and Sabine Ruß-SattarPART I1. Part I Introduction: The Politics of Redefining Borders; Helen Schwenken and Sabine Ruß-Sattar2. Constructing Voluntarism: Technologies of 'Intent Management' in Australian Border Controls; Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering3. Malta and the Rescue of Unwanted Migrants at Sea: Negotiating the Humanitarian Law of the Sea and the Contested Redesigning of Borders; Silja Klepp4. Negotiating Mobility, Debating Borders: Migration Diplomacy in Turkey-EU Relations; Ahmet Içduygu and Aysen ÜstübiciPART II5. Part II Introduction: The Technologies of Bordering; Helen Schwenken and Sabine Ruß-Sattar6. The Momentum of Contestation: Airports as Borderlands on the Inside; Detlef Sack7. The Interiorisation and Localisation of Border Control: A US Case; Robyn Magalit Rodriguez8. Outsiders/Insiders: How Local Immigrant Organisations Contest the Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants in the US; Mara Sidney9. Conditionalities as Internal Borders: The Case of 'Security of Residence' for Third-Country Nationals in Austria; Ilker AtaçPART III10. Part III Introduction: Politics of Citizenship as Border Politics; Sabine Ruß-Sattar and Helen Schwenken11. Border Control Politics as Technologies of Citizenship in Europe and North America; Kim Rygiel12. Troubling Borders: Sans-Papiers and France; Catherine Raissiguier13. From Sangatte to 'the Jungle': Europe's Contested Borderlands; Helen Schwenken14. Labour Migration, Postcolonial Nationalism and Class Politics Beyond Borders: The Case of the Turkish Party MHP in Germany; Jörg Nowak15. Emigration Policies and Citizenship Rhetoric: Morocco and its Emigrants in Europe; Esther Mikuszies