Everyday Bordering in Migrants’ Access to Rights: Scope, Practices and Strategies of Resistance (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3031966635 ISBN 13: 9783031966637

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

This book delves into how everyday bordering—rules and practices used by states for migration governance—impacts migrants’ access to social rights and shapes their post-migration life. It focuses on the interactions between institutional bodies, agents, and migrants of various profiles, highlighting how these dynamics condition migrants’ experiences and access to rights. This book offers significant insights into the complex relationship between access to social and fundamental rights and bordering practices, examined at various levels and from complementary perspectives. This book will be of special interest to scholars and students of migration studies and welfare studies, as well as practitioners working in the field of migration.

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About the Author

Itır Aladağ Görentaş is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations at Kocaeli University, Turkey.

Marie Mallet-Garcia is Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK.

Jérémy Mandin is Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Elsa Mescoli is Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, affiliated with the CEDEM (Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Migration) and the LASC (Social and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory) at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Buket Özdemir Dal is a Doctoral Candidate in Migration Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Kocaeli University, Turkey.

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This book delves into how everyday bordering—rules and practices used by states for migration governance—impacts migrants’ access to social rights and shapes their post-migration life. It focuses on the interactions between institutional bodies, agents, and migrants of various profiles, highlighting how these dynamics condition migrants’ experiences and access to rights. This book offers significant insights into the complex relationship between access to social and fundamental rights and bordering practices, examined at various levels and from complementary perspectives. This book will be of special interest to scholars and students of migration studies and welfare studies, as well as practitioners working in the field of migration.

Itır Aladağ Görentaş is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations at Kocaeli University, Turkey.

Marie Mallet-Garcia is Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK.

Jérémy Mandin is Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Elsa Mescoli is Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, affiliated with the CEDEM (Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Migration) and the LASC (Social and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory) at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Buket Özdemir Dal is a Doctoral Candidate in Migration Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Kocaeli University, Turkey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031966635
• ISBN 13: 9783031966637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Aladağ Görentaş Itır, Mallet-Garcia Marie, Mandin Jérémy, Mescoli Elsa, Özdemir Dal Buket