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Beyond deportation: researching the control of outward mobility using a space of flows logic.

Authors :
WEBER, LEANNE
MOHN, SIGMUND BOOK
VECCHIO, FRANCESCO
FILI, ANDRIANI
Source :
Global Networks; Jan2020, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p65-84, 20p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Manuel Castells (1996) famously argued that human processes are increasingly operating according to the logic of flows and it has now become commonplace to analyse movements of people, information and commodities in terms of flows. However, scholars have been slow to capture the dynamics of border enforcement practices in these terms. In this article, we argue that 'deportation' can best be understood, not as a discrete practice that is unidirectional, territorial and wholly controlled by individual states, but as a range of diverse practices used by states (and sometimes undermined by other parties) to try to control the circulation of people within a dynamic supra‐national space. By focusing on 'mobility control continuums' operating in selected countries at the peripheries of Europe, we capture the dynamics of state intervention in trans‐border flows and thereby contribute towards developing concepts and methodologies for the criminological study of border controls that are 'sensitive to the complexities of the global' (Aas 2007). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14702266
Volume :
20
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Global Networks
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
140250697
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12226