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View article: On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests
On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests Open
In this paper, we analyse the key forms of borderwork that have emerged in UK social security over the last few decades. We argue that these forms play a role in everyday bordering in the UK, i.e. the embedding of immigration checks into m…
View article: Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education
Bordering public institutions through the routinization of borderwork and datafication: Internalized immigration regimes within UK health care and higher education Open
The embedding of immigration checks into public institutions constitutes an integral part of contemporary bordering regimes. In this article, we situate recent changes to the UK’s internal borderscape in two parts of the public sector: hig…
View article: Reading for refusal in UK maternity care: entangling struggles for border and reproductive justice
Reading for refusal in UK maternity care: entangling struggles for border and reproductive justice Open
Research has shown that women with insecure immigration statuses in the United Kingdom (UK) are more likely to register later in their pregnancy with National Health Service (NHS) maternity care providers. This late engagement with healthc…
View article: Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019
Transforming embodied experiences of academic conferences through creative practice: Participating in an instant choir at the nordic geographers’ meeting in 2019 Open
This paper stems from cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration between community music and human geography which sought to interrogate and understand claims of social sustainability and social change often cited in evaluation reports …
View article: The Development of a Prison Mental Health Unit in England: Understanding Realist Context(s)
The Development of a Prison Mental Health Unit in England: Understanding Realist Context(s) Open
A pragmatic solution for the provision of care for prisoners with serious mental illness, who are often subject to delays in hospital transfer, is the creation of specialist prison units. This paper analyses the development of a prison uni…
View article: Everyday Re-Bordering and the Intersections of Borderwork, Boundary Work and Emotion Work amongst Romanians Living in the UK
Everyday Re-Bordering and the Intersections of Borderwork, Boundary Work and Emotion Work amongst Romanians Living in the UK Open
This article explores the intersections of borderwork and boundary work in everyday encounters in the UK. It focuses on the experiences of Romanian nationals, who between 2007 and 2014 were subject to transitional controls, which are under…
View article: Brexit and new autochthonic politics of belonging
Brexit and new autochthonic politics of belonging Open
The outcome of the 2016 European Union membership referendum is re-shaping the United Kingdom's relationship with the EU through shifting geopolitical positioning(s) and the (re)introduction of barriers and boundaries and also challenging …
View article: Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside
Housing, the hyper-precarization of asylum seekers and the contested politics of welcome on Tyneside Open
This paper analyses the role of housing in shaping the contested politics of welcome in the North East of England. It argues that changes to state provision of asylum seeker housing and the introduction of new legislation to create a hosti…
View article: Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘Less-than-human’ labour landscapes
Labour, carcerality and punishment: ‘Less-than-human’ labour landscapes Open
This paper brings together carceral and labour geographies to highlight new research avenues and empirical gaps. Despite valuable engagements with unfree and precarious work by labour geographers and substantial developments within carcera…
View article: “People think that Romanians and Roma are the same”: Everyday bordering and the lifting of transitional controls
“People think that Romanians and Roma are the same”: Everyday bordering and the lifting of transitional controls Open
On 1 January 2014 the transitional controls on free movement adopted by the UK when Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007, ended. This paper demonstrates how the discourses of politicians relating to their removal, amplified via news …
View article: Introduction to the special issue: racialized bordering discourses on European Roma
Introduction to the special issue: racialized bordering discourses on European Roma Open
In the introduction to this special issue, we briefly introduce everyday bordering as the theoretical framing for the papers and explore its relationship to the process of racialization. We introduce our situated intersectional approach to…
View article: Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian–Romanian borderlands
Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian–Romanian borderlands Open
This chapter explores representations of cross-border mobilities in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlands. In 2007-2009, cross-border trading and shopping had established themselves as an important part of the local economy and integral to da…
View article: Introduction to the special issue: racialized bordering discourses on European Roma
Introduction to the special issue: racialized bordering discourses on European Roma Open
In the introduction to this special issue, we briefly introduce everyday bordering as the theoretical framing for the papers and explore its relationship to the process of racialization. We introduce our situated intersectional approach to…
View article: Changing the racialized ‘common sense’ of everyday bordering
Changing the racialized ‘common sense’ of everyday bordering Open
The out-sourcing of border-guarding is not (just) going to paid expert agencies but is imposed as part of the unpaid daily citizenship duties of untrained people in Britain.