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Squire, Vicki (2017) Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics : new research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised. Politics, 37 (3). pp. 243-253. doi:10.1177/0263395717715856 ISSN 0263-3957.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395717715856
Abstract
The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to this end? The articles presented in this Special Issue of Politics each differently explore how actions by or on behalf of irregular/ised migrants involve processes of subjectivity formation that imply a form of agency. Collectively we explore how irregular migration struggles feature as a site marked by active subjects of trans-border politics. We propose a research agenda based on tracing those processes – both regulatory, activist, and everyday – that negotiate and contest how an individual is positioned as an ‘irregular migrant’. The ethos behind such research is to explore how the most marginalised individuals reclaim or reconfigure subjecthood in ambiguous terms.
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 -- Political aspects, Marginality, Social | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Politics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0263-3957 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 August 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 37 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 243-253 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0263395717715856 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 September 2017 |
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