The Contested Politics of Mobility Borderzones and Irregularity [Hardcover]

Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years.

Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobilityexplores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an analytic of irregularity. It brings together authors who address issues of mobility and irregularity from a range of distinct perspectives, to focus on the politics of control as well as the politics of migration. The volume develops an account of irregularity as a produced, ambivalent and contested socio-political condition, showing how this is activated through wide-ranging borderzones that pull between migration and control. Covering cases from across contemporary North America and Europe and examining a range of control mechanisms, such as biometrics, deportation and workplace raiding, the volume refuses the term illegal to describe movements of people across borders. In so doing, it highlights the complexity of relations between different regions and between a politics of migration and a politics control, and makes a timely intervention in the intersecting fields of critical citizenship, migration and security studies.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, international relations, sociology, migration and law.

1. The Contested Politics of Mobility: Politicising Mobility, Mobilising Politics Vicki SquirePart 1:Politicising Mobility2. Politicising Mobility Vicki Squire3. Freedom and speed in enlarged borderzones Didier Bigo4. Rezoning the Global: Technological Zones, Technological Work, and the (Un-) Making of Biometric Borders William Walters5. Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Migrant Countel“&