(and next time we will try to find a non-cartesian map to pinpoint our activities, promise)

...and we will kick off at 1pm
43 Gordon Square

@migrationscholars.bsky.social

Camilo, I learned so much from your lucid, important and powerful presentation. Thank you so much!
Hopefully more to come

That's precisely what border management does. Securing borders doesn't mean being 'anti-immigration.' It means anti-specific-forms-of-. It's about distinguishing between desirable and undesirable types of circulation

We know that the border crisis isn’t about migration—it’s about the re-production of racialised exploitation, dispossession and hierarchy. The book investigates how this process is granularly produced and constructed in place, and why this is important. #worldmaking #placemaking

Ch 6 "The postcoloniality of asylum infrastructure," concludes that chronicling the border crisis demands embracing empirical unevenness, ontological instability, and conceptual ambiguity. It calls for a postcolonial gaze that provincializes, destabilizes, and places concepts.

Ch 5, "Placing autonomy" revisits the autonomy of migration debate from the standpoint of place, showing how the thrown-togetherness of migrants/non-migrants unevenly constructs asylum infrastructure. #AutonomyOfMigration #Migrants #Embodiment #Borders

Ch 4, "Destabilising coloniality" interrogates coloniality literature from the standpoint of place and illustrates the multiple "afterlives" haunting asylum seekers' reception facilities. The coloniality of asylum is a content-form #deco #PostcolonialStudies #Asylum #Place

Ch 3, "Provincializing logistics" interrogates critical logistics literature from the standpoint of place, and explains why logistical operations are lively, uneven, and unstable #Logistics #EUBorders #Place

Ch2 "The place of asylum infrastructure" formalizes the book's "standpoint of place" articulating Marxist and decolonial geographies via #GillianHart #MiltonSantos and #DoreenMassey. It proposes an ontologically unstable approach to studying borders and their crisis.

#SpacePlace

Ch 1 "Buildings as protagonists" argues that buildings aren't passive backdrops but places that "communicate" complex social and political relations. They serve as crucial analytical standpoints for mapping the border and its crisis. #Architecture #SocialGeography

Introduction: the book's main aim is to offer an understanding of the EU border machine centred on the deeply situated cartographies that explain its emergence, entrenchment and transformations, in and across “places”, and to foreground the unevenness of these processes

read the introduction @SOAS research repository soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/436575

buy the ebook for £18 @googlebooks or through @BrisUniPress if you subscribe to their newsletter

ask your library to buy the expensive hardback @SOASLibrary

wait for the paperback, out next year