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Squire, Vicki (2020) Migration and the politics of ‘the human’ : confronting the privileged subjects of IR. International Relations, 34 (3). pp. 290-308. doi:10.1177/0047117820946380 ISSN 0047-1178.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820946380
Abstract
In what ways has migration as a field of scholarship contributed to the discipline of IR? How can migration as a lived experience shed light on international politics as a field of interconnections? And how might migration as a political and analytical force compel IR to confront its privileged subjects? This article addresses these questions by focusing specifically on precarious migration from the Global South to the Global North. It shows how critical scholars refuse the suggestion that such migrations pose a ‘global challenge’ or problem to be resolved, considering instead how contemporary practices of governing migration effectively produce precarity for many people on the move. It also shows how critical works point to longer standing racialised dynamics of colonial violence within which such governing practices are embedded, to emphasise both the limitations of liberal humanitarianism as well as the problematic politics of ‘the human’ that this involves. By building on the insights of anti-racist, indigenous and postcolonial scholarship, critical scholars of migration are well placed to draw attention to the privileging of some subjects over others in the study and practice of international politics. The article argues that engaging IR while rejecting the orthodoxies on which the discipline is built remains critical for such works, in order to advance understanding of the silences and violences of contemporary international politics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emigration and immigration, Humanism, Civil society, Migration, Internal, International relations, Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Relations | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-1178 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 September 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 290-308 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0047117820946380 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Squire, V. (2020). Migration and the politics of ‘the human’: Confronting the privileged subjects of IR. International Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820946380. Copyright © 2020 (The Authors) permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820946380 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 July 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 July 2020 | ||||||||
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