TY - JOUR
T1 - Cities of sanctuary in environments of hostility
T2 - Competing and contrasting migration infrastructures
AU - Mosselson, Aidan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author. Antipode © 2021 Antipode Foundation Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/5/27
Y1 - 2021/5/27
N2 - This paper analyses the tensions, contradictions and overlaps between supportive migration infrastructures and the generalised anti-migrant atmosphere created by the UK government. It utilises infrastructural perspectives to show how the hostile environment has become an everyday reality that forced migrants have to constantly endure and navigate. As an everyday reality, the hostile environment inheres and comes to life in various settings, spaces, infrastructures and affects. Specifically, this paper documents how government buildings, urban landscapes and houses provided to forced migrants are all conduits through which anti-migrant hostility is encountered and reproduced. It also demonstrates how the hostile environment permeates infrastructures designed to provide support to forced migrants, creating divisions between those providing care and those being cared for, thus recreating affective and interpersonal borders. At the same time, the paper shows how anti-migrant infrastructures are contested and repurposed by activists, demonstrating the processual and always in-the-making nature of infrastructures.
AB - This paper analyses the tensions, contradictions and overlaps between supportive migration infrastructures and the generalised anti-migrant atmosphere created by the UK government. It utilises infrastructural perspectives to show how the hostile environment has become an everyday reality that forced migrants have to constantly endure and navigate. As an everyday reality, the hostile environment inheres and comes to life in various settings, spaces, infrastructures and affects. Specifically, this paper documents how government buildings, urban landscapes and houses provided to forced migrants are all conduits through which anti-migrant hostility is encountered and reproduced. It also demonstrates how the hostile environment permeates infrastructures designed to provide support to forced migrants, creating divisions between those providing care and those being cared for, thus recreating affective and interpersonal borders. At the same time, the paper shows how anti-migrant infrastructures are contested and repurposed by activists, demonstrating the processual and always in-the-making nature of infrastructures.
KW - affect
KW - City of Sanctuary
KW - everyday bordering
KW - forced migration
KW - hostile environment
KW - migration infrastructures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106687561&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/anti.12739
DO - 10.1111/anti.12739
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106687561
JO - Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
JF - Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
SN - 0066-4812
ER -