This course explores how migratory movements and
attempts at their regulation produce space as well as scale,
and reviews the theoretical constructs (such as
transnationalism and translocalism) that account for the
emergent spatialities of migrant connections.
Topics to be covered include how migrants make place
and negotiate home in their everyday lives, how
experiences of localization vary among cities,
how life in camps may deffer from or resemble
life in the city, how states undertake spatial strategies
to deter migrant flows (including excision of territories,
pushbacks of border- crossers and creation of 'hotspots'),
how migration routes come into being (including through
smuggling networks), are governed and closed off to be
re-channeled elsewhere, and what moral geographies
correspond to processes of migration by assigning social
legitimacy to particular mobilities.
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