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table of contents
Contents
- Preface
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Scales and locales of migrating borders
- 1.Bordering empire
- Introduction: bordering empire – migrating borders past and present
- The role of empires
- Durability of empires and the role of law
- Subjecthood and borders: race, poverty and the unfree ‘free’ movement
- Movement of people during empire
- The emergence of national borders
- Bordering empire: the hegemonic effect of the rule of law
- Empire: law as legitimacy and jurisdiction
- Mobilisation of rights and subjecthood
- The end of free movement and the Commonwealth
- Re-bordering at the end of empire
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2.Empire into nation state: bringing home the colonial hostile environment
- Introduction
- Chief legal architecture of hostile environment
- From ‘civis Britannicus sum’ to ‘civis nullius sum’?
- A quick march of the law
- The arrival of East African Asians
- The idea of patriality
- Document checking and precarity
- Health bordering through documentation
- Resistance from civil society
- Asylum privatisation and provision of resources
- The legality of asylum seeking
- Blocking citizenship for refugees
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3.Bordering a continent and a country: EU and the UK
- Introduction
- The UK in the EU
- Characteristics of EU citizenship
- Continental citizenship and rights
- EU citizenship: undermining or sharing nation-state sovereignty?
- Continental ‘welfare’ bordering and borders in the borderless: free movement while keeping ‘others’ at bay
- Bordering asylum
- Brexit and ramifications
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Part II Themes and practices of migrating borders
- 4.Bordering the workplace
- Introduction
- The points-based system for work entry
- Brexit and the labour market
- Naturalisation and belonging
- ‘Lower-skilled’ workers and vulnerability
- Who is an irregular worker?
- Bordering asylum seeking through work
- Eyes everywhere: private parties checking status and technology
- The university as a workplace site of bordering and production of future workers
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5.Bordering families
- Introduction
- Anxiety about the migrant family
- Culture of disbelief: virginity testing
- Culture of disbelief: sham marriages and non-marriages
- Culture of control: the minimum income requirements
- Bordering through denying humanity
- Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009
- Children’s rights: citizenship
- Education for children
- The university as a site of national security bordering
- Right to access healthcare for children and their families
- Access to children’s health services in detention
- Preserving children’s rights and keeping families together
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6.Bordering globally: emergencies of health and security
- Introduction
- The pandemic and public health borders
- Exclusion of citizens: Newman v Minister for Health and Aged Care
- Exclusion of foreigners: Djokovic and discretion
- Proportionality and Covid: disproportionate effect on minority populations
- Detention
- Control of conduct: bordering through deportation
- National security bordering measures: cancellation of citizenship
- Cancellation and new frontiers for multiple nationality holders
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index