Description
Book SynopsisFrom the intersection of citizenship, critical migration studies, and science and technology studies (STS), this book examines, across the various case studies, configurations between technologies, infrastructures and citizenship that may constrain acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes; constitute contestation and participation over citizenship; or enable and shape alternative acts of citizenship in migration and border regimes.
Technologies and infrastructures on the border are designed to position migrants in multiple and potentially contradictory forms; migrants crossing the border, in their turn, may choose to challenge and repurpose those technologies and infrastructures to match their interests. By elaborating on the notion of âmaterial citizenship politicsâ, the contributors provide a detailed analysis of socio-material practices on the border that moves beyond portraying migrants as mere victims of border technologies an
Table of Contents
1. Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship politics 2. After citizenship: autonomy of migration, organisational ontology and mobile commons 3. Re-assembling the surveillable refugee body in the era of data-craving 4. Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes 5. Operation shelter as humanitarian infrastructure: material and normative renderings of Venezuelan migration in Brazil 6. Knowledge and legitimacy in asylum decision-making: the politics of country of origin information 7. Driving social change from below: exploring the role of counter-security technologies in constructing mobile noncitizens 8. Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures 9. A material politics of citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres
