Fugitive Junctures
Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanno Brankamp (0000-0001-6146-9660, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow and Department of Geography Durham University Durham UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.70052 |
| OpenAlex | W4417520174 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 62 |
Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this article critically intervenes in these debates by offering an analysis of ‘fugitive junctures’: decisional moments in time when individual flightpaths conjoin, are renegotiated and reworked by migrants on the run. Drawing on recent debates in Black geographies, critical migration studies and abolitionist scholarship, the article develops a detailed understanding of these junctures to give more texture to the notion of ‘fugitivity’ whose relative mutability has often limited its analytical value in migration research. While their locus may be shifting depending on context, fugitive junctures are nonetheless recognisable by the three existential pursuits that they mediate during migrant journeys: life‐seeking, route‐finding and the mobile ensemble. In examining what structures different stages of escape mobilities, this article ultimately sheds light on the building blocks of a living counter‐cartography of freedom which lays bare the difficult and circuitous road to abolition
Existentialism · Frame (networking · Lived experience · Mobilities · Narrative · Value (mathematics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Caging Borders and Carceral States
Whiteness as Property
On the Run
Freedom as Marronage
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa
The Death of Asylum
Border abolitionism
Seeing Like a Smuggler
Queer and Trans African Mobilities
The Borders of "Europe"
The Ethics of Research with Prisoners
Violence en route
From Sanctuary to a Queer Politics of Fugitivity
Buufis amongst Somalis in Dadaab
Geography’s abolitionist turn
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
Black Study, Black Struggle
Flight to Freedom
Marronage as a Past and Present Geography in the Americas
Commoning mobility
Re-routing migration geographies
Introduction – Field methods in ‘closed contexts’
Radical mobilities
Dear Science and Other Stories
Feeling the refugee camp
Escaping Liberty
The Causal Logic of Critical Junctures
Governmental mobility
The Study of Critical Junctures
The silent encroachment of the frontier
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1
Occupied Enclave
Black matters are spatial matters
Bordering solidarities
Of Migrant Slaves and Underground Railroads
Towards a Politics of Mobility
Studying embodied encounters
Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movement
After citizenship
States and human immobilization
Smuggling as a Material Critique of Borders
Sovereignty Entrepreneurs' and the Production of State Power in Two Central African Borderlands
The Morphology of Marronage
Maroon Geographies
Being En Route
Another Life is Possible
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |