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Acts of desertion : the ambiguities of abandonment and renouncement across the Sonoran borderzone
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Squire, Vicki (2015) Acts of desertion : the ambiguities of abandonment and renouncement across the Sonoran borderzone. Antipode, 47 (2). pp. 500-516. ISSN 0066-4812.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12118
Abstract
What are ‘acts of desertion’, how do they feature in contemporary border struggles, and what might an emphasis on such acts bring to the analysis of the politics of mobility? This article seeks to address these questions in the context of the Sonoran borderzone, which crosses Mexico and the US. It develops an analysis that sheds light on contemporary border struggles in terms that acknowledge both the intensity of security practices as well as the significance of migratory acts, without pre-fixing the relation between the two. The analysis shows how ‘acts of desertion’ involve differentiated dynamics of abandonment and renouncement, which demand appreciation of the ambiguities of contemporary border struggles. As acts that variously involve a dynamics of refusal, the article argues that acts of desertion challenge the limits of liberal citizenship, without wholly transcending its limitations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emigration and immigration, Boundaries | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Antipode | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0066-4812 | ||||||
Official Date: | March 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 47 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 500-516 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 July 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 September 2016 |
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