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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Migrant bodies"”.
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Race & Mobility in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Migration Control
… also inviting the border closer to cities and migrant bodies. This marks a convergence of Silicon Valley logics, austere and xenophobic migration management practices, and racial capitalism. In New York City, infrastructural technologies such as sophisticated public Wi-Fi, smart ID cards, and …
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"It actually made me feel like I didn't even want to stay here": Experiences of "Voluntary Return" in a Sanctuary City
… from 2006 2015, rancorous anti-refugee and anti-migrant discourse and policy were circulated, which manifested in a large-scale overhaul of the immigration system. Social, economic, and physical exclusions increased as a reassertion of state sovereignty through the reconstitution and …
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… one, I examine the regulation and control of migrant and asylum seeker populations in twenty-first century Britain in By the Sea. The novel underlines the ways in which the biopolitical regulation of bodies in both geopolitical and literary space creates a hierarchical concept of the human. …
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Eventalizing Berlin Anti-homophobia Policy in the Racialized and Sexualized "Social Curriculum of Germanness"
… the “backwards homophobic (Muslim/Turkish/Arab) migrant” in need of civilizing measures, and the “pre-democratic homophobic (neo-)Nazi.” In the first part of my dissertation, I work my way towards the policy texts. I highlight some of the discourses, actors, and institutions that helped …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… movement only. The dissertation delves into migrant and body-territory epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and making present the bodies, spatialities, and knowledges that populate a geopolitically manufactured border and migration …
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Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica
… migration. It focuses on the work of Nicaraguan migrants living in the informal settlement of La Carpio in San José, Costa Rica, as they negotiate rights in the form of urban services. Nicaraguans in La Carpio have organized politically since 1993 to self-install, demand, and negotiate services …
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Mapping the denial of space : Latinos and United States immigration law
… that exist between U.S. nationalism and foreign bodies traversing its territory. Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, and Hondurans—referred to as Latinos in this research—constitute nearly all of deportation from the United States in recent decades. In addition to these deportation trends, Latinos …