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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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
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For my mother, Gouri Sen
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