Overview
The Migration Mobile offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they are in the bordering process, policing and security practices produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject. At the same time, border practices simultaneously imply processes of dissidence and resistance. Border infrastructures and resistance to bordering practices refer to dynamic and complex interactions between migrants and non-human others, technologies at the borderland and elsewhere. Border guards, EU officials, Frontex officers, activists, NGOs and solidarity networks configure both hybrid alliances of humans/nonhumans and new virtual and urban spaces in order to enforce or resist bordering. Through analyses of empirical cases drawing from the European border regimes the book investigates how technologies employed by states and EU border agencies configure the border regimes; how spaces of migration are configured through uses and re-uses of high-tech technologies; and finally on how the border regimes and ‘the border industrial complex’ are contested reconfigured by the use of ICT by migrants and solidarity networks.
Full Product Details
Author: Vasilis Galis ,
Martin Bak Jørgensen ,
Marie Sandberg ,
Martin Bak Jørgensen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781538170984
ISBN 10: 1538170981
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 February 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting the changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration. --Marie Gillespie, The Open University, UK The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the resulting tensions. --Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the contributors chart the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - through both practices of control and enabling forms of resistance and subversion. --Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh
Author Information
Vasilis Galis is an associate professor in the Technologies in Practice Group at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Martin Bak Jørgensen is a professor affiliated with the Democracy, Migration and Society (DEMOS) research group at Aalborg University, Denmark. Marie Sandberg is an associate professor of ethnology, and director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
