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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The tactics of asylum and irregular migrant support groups
T2 - disrupting bodily, technological, and neoliberal strategies of control
AU - Gill, Nick
AU - Conlon, Deidre
AU - Tyler, Imogen
AU - Oeppen, Ceri
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like detention centers and courts. We analyze their appropriation of control technologies and discuss their exploitation of inconsistencies within the neoliberalization of controls. These tactics highlight the importance of resistive actions that are carried out “within enemy territory” (De Certeau 1984, 37). As such, they represent a complementary set of actions to more radical forms of protest and consequently enrich our understanding of the diversity of forms of resistance.
AB - States are exercising an increasing array of spatial strategies of migration control, including in the area of asylum migration. Drawing on interview data with thirty-five British and American irregular migrant and asylum support groups (MASGs), this article explores the spatial “tactics” (De Certeau 1984) employed by MASGs in response to strategies of migration control. We consider their infiltration of highly securitized physical spaces like detention centers and courts. We analyze their appropriation of control technologies and discuss their exploitation of inconsistencies within the neoliberalization of controls. These tactics highlight the importance of resistive actions that are carried out “within enemy territory” (De Certeau 1984, 37). As such, they represent a complementary set of actions to more radical forms of protest and consequently enrich our understanding of the diversity of forms of resistance.
KW - activism
KW - asylum
KW - migration
KW - resistance
U2 - 10.1080/00045608.2013.857544
DO - 10.1080/00045608.2013.857544
M3 - Journal article
VL - 104
SP - 373
EP - 381
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
SN - 0004-5608
IS - 2
ER -