This article shows how the organizational activities that filter people through borders are shaped by anticipation of migrants’ agency. Through ethnographic research in the United Kingdom’s two largest immigration detention centers, I analyze implementation practices carried out by frontline workers of the Home Office. I question the underexamined ...
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In Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders, Kevin M. F. Platt traces the history of Soviet control on the Baltic state of Latvia by focusing on the cultural legacies of Soviet hegemony in the region, notably through poems, commemorative monuments, literature, films, and popular music. Describing how Russian-speaking Latvia...
The chapter examines the ways in which sociological lenses have contributed to research on borders, embassies, and visas, to stress why they matter, and are worth studying and building upon. When people apply for a visa, categories of desirable and undesirable migrants/travelers are socially constructed. Embassies and visas can be understood as sph...
Drawing on literature from a variety of migration contexts, this chapter investigates the distinction between international and internal migration. We first review the recent research on both forms of migration, before turning to research that attempts to “bridge the gap” between them. Second, we offer an original empirical analysis of both interna...
Le concept de standard migratoire renvoie à l’identification, dans le droit de l’Union, d’un dispositif ayant pour fonction de réguler l’obligation d’intégration des personnes que ce même ordre juridique fait peser sur les États membres. Ce dispositif mobilise des indicateurs de mérite économique et social aux fins d’assurer, à chaque étape du parc...
This is the introduction to TRANSIT 14.1's special section on the representation of borders and borderlands in the literary and cultural landscapes of Germany and Poland. We have brought together scholarship, excerpts from an essayistic historical study, a creative essay, a poem, and two translated chapters from a Polish novel that explore past and...
Our societies are facing the rise of cross-border crises, which transcend established territorial demarcations. Managing cross-border crises raises challenges of spatiality, as actors need to coordinate within an unexpected, temporary space of action, shaped by multiple overlapping boundaries. However, little is known about how actors deal with the...
From its conception as a nation, the U.S. pushed from east to west and north to south expanding and establishing new borders, a process reinforced by nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. landscape photography. By contrast, twentieth and twenty-first century Chicanx and Latinx artists addressed the border as a site of political turmoil, violence, a...
