Everyday Border Struggles
This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.
In an age of mobility, borders appear to be everywhere. Encountered more and more in our everyday lives, borders locally enact global divisions and inequalities of power, wealth, and identity. Critically examining everyday borders in the UK and Calais, Tyerman shows them to be sites of ethical political struggle. From the Calais jungle to the UKs hostile environment, this book shows how borders are carried out through practices of everyday segregation that make life for some but not others unliveable. At the same time, it reveals the practices of everyday solidarity with which people on the move confront these segregating borders. This book sheds light on the complex ways borders entrench themselves in our lives, the complicity of ordinary people in their enactment, and the seductive power they continue to assert over our political imaginations.
Of general interest to scholars and students working on issues of migration, borders, citizenship, and security in international politics, sociology, and philosophy, this book will also appeal to practitioners in areas of migrant rights, asylum advocacy, anti-detention or deportation campaigning, human rights, direct democracy, and community organising.
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.
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Everyday Border Struggles
Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais
Thom Tyerman
First published 2022
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tyerman, Thom, author.
Title: Everyday border struggles: segregation and solidarity
in the UK and Calais / Thom Tyerman.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Interventions | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020049247 (print) | LCCN 2020049248 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367559281 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003095774 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Great BritainEmigration and immigrationSocial aspects. |
FranceEmigration and immigrationSocial aspects. |
Great BritainBoundariesSocial aspects. |
Calais (France)BoundariesSocial aspects. |
ImmigrantsGreat BritainSocial conditions. |
ImmigrantsFranceCalaisSocial conditions.
Classification: LCC JV7633 .T94 2021 (print) |
LCC JV7633 (ebook) | DDC 305.9/069120941dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049247
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049248
ISBN: 978-0-367-55928-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-55932-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-09577-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Newgen Publishing UK
Contents
All books are the product of their time and place, as well as multiple encounters, relations, and conversations the author had with other people they met along the way. This book is no different. The research behind it began in 2012 and continued alongside unfolding political events in the UK and Europe, tracking the UKs building of a hostile environment, the EU border crisis of 20152016 and the post-imperial melodrama that is Brexit. Much of this time was spent for me in Manchester, and the citys influence can be felt throughout this book. For many years, I lived in the southern Manchester districts of Rusholme and Moss Side, home to diverse communities of immigrants and political radicals. I attended my first meeting of no borders activists in a room above a Palestinian caf on the curry mile, the aromas of charcoal-grilled meats and flavoured tobacco drifting through the window on the damp evening air. Several years later, it was here that friendships I had formed in the camps and squats of Calais crossed the border and continued to grow over late-night coffees and Syrian sweets. It is places like these, as well as the relations and communities formed there, that are the primary targets of the hostile environment agenda but also important sites of resistance. Special thanks to Mohammed, Ahmed, Awad, Louis, and John for your lasting friendship.
