Thom Tyerman

Everyday Border Struggles

Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780367559281
• ISBN-10: 0367559285
• Artikelnr.: 69936351

Autorenporträt

Thom Tyerman is a lecturer in International Politics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He researches borders from a critical perspective with a special focus on the hostile environment in the UK and Calais and 'no borders' migrant solidarity politics. His work has recently been published in Geopolitics and Border Criminologies. Alongside his research, he is the joint coordinator of an immigration detainee support group in the UK and is involved with various activist projects and initiatives that seek to challenge border apartheid.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. European border apartheid: crisis
racism
and segregation
2. Everyday border segregation in the UK: creating a 'hostile environment'
3. Everyday border segregation in Calais: embodied encounters
4. The Calais 'Jungle' camp: humanitarianism
biopolitics
and the politics of forgetting
5. Theorising everyday migrant politics: struggles with the seduction of borders
6. Everyday solidarity: relations of 'common' humanity