Renata Blumberg and Raphi Rechitsky
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479898992
- eISBN:
- 9781479806799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479898992.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter focuses on border politics on the redrawn border of the Ukraine and the EU to interrogate how transnational social movements that seek to challenge territorial borders can also actively ...
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This chapter focuses on border politics on the redrawn border of the Ukraine and the EU to interrogate how transnational social movements that seek to challenge territorial borders can also actively construct internal social borders. It analyzes the case of No Border Camp, a convergence of over three hundred activists from countries around the world, to protest unjust immigration enforcement and the militarization of European borders. Activists involved in these transnational initiatives confronted tensions that emerged around “borders of difference” and power disparities, which limited the impact of the movement's antiauthoritarian practices. While differences of language and region were pronounced and impacted network-building within the camp, collaborative efforts to advocate for more just border enforcement were also hindered by varied understandings of appropriate antiauthoritarian organizing strategies. Although the mobilization was successful in achieving some goals, global economic inequalities as well as activists' divergent relationships to and imaginaries of place inhibited the implementation of anticapitalist, antinationalist politics. In this case, organizing across borders of identity or nationality affirmed differences, rather than blurring or transcending them. Despite activists' rejection of liberal rights discourses that are foundational to nation-states, they confronted tensions emerging from national origin as well as the geopolitical power relations among countries.Less
This chapter focuses on border politics on the redrawn border of the Ukraine and the EU to interrogate how transnational social movements that seek to challenge territorial borders can also actively construct internal social borders. It analyzes the case of No Border Camp, a convergence of over three hundred activists from countries around the world, to protest unjust immigration enforcement and the militarization of European borders. Activists involved in these transnational initiatives confronted tensions that emerged around “borders of difference” and power disparities, which limited the impact of the movement's antiauthoritarian practices. While differences of language and region were pronounced and impacted network-building within the camp, collaborative efforts to advocate for more just border enforcement were also hindered by varied understandings of appropriate antiauthoritarian organizing strategies. Although the mobilization was successful in achieving some goals, global economic inequalities as well as activists' divergent relationships to and imaginaries of place inhibited the implementation of anticapitalist, antinationalist politics. In this case, organizing across borders of identity or nationality affirmed differences, rather than blurring or transcending them. Despite activists' rejection of liberal rights discourses that are foundational to nation-states, they confronted tensions emerging from national origin as well as the geopolitical power relations among countries.
Brenda Oude Breuil
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426109
- eISBN:
- 9781447301714
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426109.003.0012
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Using the example of irregular North African child migrants in the port city of Marseille, France, this chapter explores some boundaries of the meaning of child trafficking. Many of these young ...
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Using the example of irregular North African child migrants in the port city of Marseille, France, this chapter explores some boundaries of the meaning of child trafficking. Many of these young people may not start their journey as trafficking victims, believing stories passed back to them that migration may offer the route to a better life than is available in the Maghreb. Whether or not they actually cross other borders, they enter what is termed liminal ‘borderlands’. The chapter examines how these young Maghrebi migrants cross physical and social borders while trying to build a life in the cityscape and social hierarchy of Marseille. It also looks at the interplay of their efforts to create a place in Marseille, and local policies to come to terms with their presence. Cigarette vendors evidently have their own, meaningful place in the cityscape of Marseille, more particularly in the markets.Less
Using the example of irregular North African child migrants in the port city of Marseille, France, this chapter explores some boundaries of the meaning of child trafficking. Many of these young people may not start their journey as trafficking victims, believing stories passed back to them that migration may offer the route to a better life than is available in the Maghreb. Whether or not they actually cross other borders, they enter what is termed liminal ‘borderlands’. The chapter examines how these young Maghrebi migrants cross physical and social borders while trying to build a life in the cityscape and social hierarchy of Marseille. It also looks at the interplay of their efforts to create a place in Marseille, and local policies to come to terms with their presence. Cigarette vendors evidently have their own, meaningful place in the cityscape of Marseille, more particularly in the markets.
Bruce Lincoln
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199372362
- eISBN:
- 9780199372393
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199372362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Using a diverse set of case studies that range from medieval banquets to professional wrestling, African kingship and Lakota Sun Dances to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the ...
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Using a diverse set of case studies that range from medieval banquets to professional wrestling, African kingship and Lakota Sun Dances to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, this volume explores the way myths, rituals, and other privileged acts of symbolic discourse actively produce, reproduce, and occasionally modify social structures and hierarchies by skillfully manipulating the sentiments of affinity and estrangement that draw people together and drive them apart.Less
Using a diverse set of case studies that range from medieval banquets to professional wrestling, African kingship and Lakota Sun Dances to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, this volume explores the way myths, rituals, and other privileged acts of symbolic discourse actively produce, reproduce, and occasionally modify social structures and hierarchies by skillfully manipulating the sentiments of affinity and estrangement that draw people together and drive them apart.
Sujey Vega
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479864539
- eISBN:
- 9781479875337
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479864539.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt moments of hostility between Latino and non-Latino residents of Lafayette emerged in the immigration debate of 2006. It considers the ...
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This chapter examines how the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt moments of hostility between Latino and non-Latino residents of Lafayette emerged in the immigration debate of 2006. It considers the lived moments of conflict and confrontation as well as the social borders and boundaries set up throughout Lafayette. It analyzes the responses of Latinas and Latinos regarding gendered differences that manifested in multiple microaggressions, as well as Walmart's role as a space of interaction in the perceptions of Latinos and non-Latinos regarding their daily routines. It also discusses the experiences of second-generation Latinos who were targeted with slurs, negative interactions, and traumatic moments of denied belonging.Less
This chapter examines how the sometimes subtle, sometimes overt moments of hostility between Latino and non-Latino residents of Lafayette emerged in the immigration debate of 2006. It considers the lived moments of conflict and confrontation as well as the social borders and boundaries set up throughout Lafayette. It analyzes the responses of Latinas and Latinos regarding gendered differences that manifested in multiple microaggressions, as well as Walmart's role as a space of interaction in the perceptions of Latinos and non-Latinos regarding their daily routines. It also discusses the experiences of second-generation Latinos who were targeted with slurs, negative interactions, and traumatic moments of denied belonging.
