Borders, Asylum and Global Non-Citizenship - The Other Side of the Fence

Explores the experiences of irregular migrants and refugees crossing borders as they resist global migration controls.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Heather L. Johnson is a Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at Queen's University Belfast, where she teaches international relations, security studies and conflict studies. She is an external researcher at the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto, and has been a member of the executive board of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies since 2009. She was a fellow with the Canadian Consortium for Human Security in 2008. Her research is interdisciplinary, and relies on qualitative and ethnographic field work in various global sites, including Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia.

Summary

The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Heather L. Johnson explores how non-citizens can be political actors at the global level through everyday decisions, challenging dominant narratives that characterize migrants as threatening or powerless.

Product details

• Authors: Heather L Johnson, Heather L. Johnson, Heather L. (Queen's University Belfast) Johnson, Heather L. (Queen''s University Belfast) Johnson, Johnson Heather L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107640917
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64091-7
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Civics and citizenship, Research methods: general