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001 2014007598
003 DLC
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008 140424s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014007598
020 $a9781107061835 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJV6225$b.J65 2014
082 00 $a325/.21$223
084 $aPOL011000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aJohnson, Heather L.,$d1980-
245 10 $aBorders, asylum and global non-citizenship :$bthe other side of the fence /$cHeather L. Johnson.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $avii, 251 pages :$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through the dynamics of particular border spaces: refugee camps, border zones and detention centres. She explores how irregular migrants are impacted by the increasingly security-oriented practices of border control, and how they confront these practices. Johnson rejects the characterization of border spaces as exceptional, abject and exclusionary, arguing instead for an understanding of politics as everyday contestation that reveals a radical political agency, re-imagining the global non-citizen as a transgressive and powerful figure. Building on recent scholarship that rethinks irregularity and non-citizenship, her conclusions have broad implications for how we understand irregular migration from a position of dialogue and solidarity"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: situating migrant narratives in irregularity; 2. Narratives and moments; 3. From forced and voluntary to irregular and regular; 4. Framing the migration regime in border control; 5. Rethinking irregularity; 6. Camps and detention centres: spaces containing irregularity; 7. The other side of the fence; 8. Irregularizing agency; Conclusion: stories about migration; Appendix: list of interviews; References.
650 0 $aBorder security$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy.
650 0 $aRefugees$xGovernment policy
650 0 $aMigrant labor$xGovernment policy.
650 0 $aRefugee camps.
650 0 $aAlien detention centers.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/61835/cover/9781107061835.jpg