Books by Heather Johnson
The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border an... more The experience of border crossing for refugees and irregular migrants challenges global border and migration controls in multiple contexts. Using qualitative field research in Tanzania, Spain, Morocco and Australia, Heather Johnson asks how a global regime of migration management and control can be perceived through the dynamics of particular border spaces: refugee camps, border zones and detention centres. She explores how irregular migrants are impacted by the increasingly security-oriented practices of border control, and how they confront these practices. Johnson rejects the characterization of border spaces as exceptional, abject and exclusionary, arguing instead for an understanding of politics as
everyday contestation that reveals a radical political agency, re-imagining the global non-citizen as a transgressive and powerful figure. Building on recent scholarship that rethinks irregularity and non-citizenship, her conclusions have broad implications for how we understand irregular migration from a position of dialogue and solidarity.
Papers by Heather Johnson
In 2007 and 2008 I entered the field to pursue in-depth qualitative research in three global site... more In 2007 and 2008 I entered the field to pursue in-depth qualitative research in three global sites: refugee camps in Tanzania, the border zone between Spain and Morocco, and detention centres in Australia. I wanted to better understand global patterns of migration control, but I also wanted to locate this understanding "on the ground" and with a focus on the experience of the migrants living in and moving through each space.
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Books by Heather Johnson
everyday contestation that reveals a radical political agency, re-imagining the global non-citizen as a transgressive and powerful figure. Building on recent scholarship that rethinks irregularity and non-citizenship, her conclusions have broad implications for how we understand irregular migration from a position of dialogue and solidarity.
Papers by Heather Johnson
everyday contestation that reveals a radical political agency, re-imagining the global non-citizen as a transgressive and powerful figure. Building on recent scholarship that rethinks irregularity and non-citizenship, her conclusions have broad implications for how we understand irregular migration from a position of dialogue and solidarity.