H Van Houtum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147973 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Van Houtum |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Van Houtum |
| FIRMA | VAN HOUTUM H |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3719-143X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 840 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Disposing the unwanted
The UK-Rwanda Deal sought to overhaul the UK’s migration policy by outsourcing the asylum process to Rwanda, a move that would have dissolved the state’s international protection for refugees. Whilst the incoming Labour Prime Minister scrapped the policy upon taking office, the question remains: Why did the UK-Rwanda Deal endure through two years of court injunctions and widespread criticism? A question that remains salient as Italy, the Netherla…
A Divine Inspiration for Border Studies; Conceptually Excavating the Polydivine Roman Border Landscape of Terminus, Janus, Mercurius, Trivia and Pluto
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We have never owned ‘Us
The recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of theorising about borders. Having moved away from the positivist paradigm that views borders as static ‘lines in the sand’, a myriad of different conceptualisations of borders as continuous socio-political processes have emerged: bordering, borderscapes and borderlands are just some of the more common ones. In this paper we aim to contribute to this processual turn in border studies by offering …
Now You See Me
In this article, we explore refugees’ countervisuality, an emancipatory protest against the visuality of border watchers. Focusing on the social media campaign ‘Now You See Me, Moria’, led by refugees in the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, we examine their digital rights claims against camp conditions and the EU-funded new Closed Controlled Access Centre. By analysing refugee-produced images and captions shared online, we unpack how ref…
Waiting for Today’s Barbarians
In this paper, we analyze the “Colosseum interview” of former U.K. Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in which he pleads for fierce border control against refugees, “like the Romans did.” His speech act is exemplary of a trend among especially conservative and/or far-right politicians and thinkers who are warning of a possible fall of the E.U., like the Roman Empire, if it does not “control its borders.” Close reading and deconstructing his phantasma…
Europe's spectacular borderlines
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The political autoimmunity of the Covid-19 response
We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic response has been characterised by a Derridean ‘political autoimmunity’, undermining a sustainable and equitable protection of global health. * This self-harming immunisation politics has been driven by a coalesce of national borderism, which excludes people on the basis of national borders, and patentism, which privileges the treatment of wealthy countries and people who can afford the patented medicines and v…
Collective Discussion
Various measures of mobility restrictions were introduced since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This collective discussion examines them in relation to six different carceral techniques that govern movement: citizenship, nativism, colonialism, infrastructure, gender, and borders. We investigate how these spatializing techniques of carcerality have been modified and strengthened in the pandemic and their implications for how we conceptualiz…
The autoimmunity of the modern university
What we critically ascertain in this essay is how the modern university is increasingly drifting away from the key ambitions of its own mission statement, and largely by its own doing. Although the typical university in its mission statement claims to aspire outstanding quality, academic freedom, and to contribute to society, in its daily organization, the modern university has normalized and internalized a neoliberal metrical governmentality, in…
I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil
‘I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. With this powerful statement Mesut Özil resigned from Germany’s national football team. His resignation act not only highlights growing controversies and uneasiness around the representation of the football nation by players with migration backgrounds, but also marks the fragility of national belonging. In this article, we deconstruct in detail Özil’s powerful resignation elaborating …
Rethinking the biopolitical
This Symposium reflects on the growing relevance of biopolitical perspectives in camps studies, border studies, refugee studies, and in particular in research at the intersection between mobility studies and political geography. The five interventions accordingly engage with questions regarding the use of biopolitics as an analytical framework, but also as a pervasive strategy and governmental tool in Western societies. Through an analysis of sev…
Beyond ‘Borderism’
Now, 20 years after our article “Bordering, Ordering and Othering”, the editorial team of TESG has asked me to look back on its formation, and to comment on the appraisals of its continued relevance and influence offered by Anssi Paasi, Bastian Vollmer, James Scott and Chiara Brambilla in this Forum. To this end, I will first explain what the inspiration was for our essay and will shortly revisit the geopolitical triadic frame that we proposed; t…
The Lie of the Wall
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Beyond Coronativism
In this contribution we focus on togetherness, as one of the key notions in the current COVID‐19 crisis. Globally, it is seen as vital to stand and act together to combat the virus, and avoid a tragedy of the commons, in which actors are acting out of self‐interest and counterproductively to the general interest. In this essay we analyse the current geographical dissonant developments that the required human togetherness across the globe is facin…
The Autoimmunity of the EU's Deadly B/ordering Regime; Overcoming its Paradoxical Paper, Iron and Camp Borders
In this article we argue that the EU suffers from autoimmunity: a self-harming protection strategy. Drawing on Derrida’s political understanding of autoimmunity, we contend that the root of this malfunction lies in the EU’s own b/ordering and othering policies, which are intended to immunise the foundational ethos of the EU. For this purpose, we dissect the EU border regime into three linked b/ordering mechanisms: the pre-borders of paper documen…
The Glocal Green Line
Cyprus has been divided for more than four decades by a cease fire line known as “the Green Line”. This long-standing partition has made the island infamous for the seemingly unsolvable antagonism between its “Turkish” and “Greek” inhabitants. In this article, we argue that, in order to better understand why this division has remained obstinately meaningful for Cypriots, we need to “delocalise” the Green Line that separates them. We contend that …
Frontiers
The frontier is one of the most fascinating concepts in geography. It is a border, yet not a well‐demarcated line but a fuzzy zone of transition, not a finished world but a world in sketch and a gate to the future. Because of its conceptual openness and relation to exploration, the frontier has been in partnership with imperialism and evokes the ancestry of an oppressive term. Arguably, however, the frontier is simultaneously a better allusion to…
Scaling Segregation; Racialising Fear
This chapter argues that borders as spatial manifestations of ambivalent migration policy express an ensemble or assemblage of fear and are strategically selective to sift and sort the feared and the fearful. Issues of immigration and minority integration have topped political agendas and media headlines in all of the member states of the European Union in recent years. Restrictive measures against immigration and asylum have become deeply politi…
Lies, Damned Lies & Maps
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Border studies and the risk of ossification
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E urope without an Endpoint. Period
This contribution focuses on the borderscape of a flat area situated at the southernmost tip of G ibraltar, at the edge of the E uropean C ontinent, which is illustratively and interestingly named E uropa P oint . We will argue that, as an evoking geographical belvedere of cultural and continental interrelationships, E uropa P oint directs attention to the inherent sociospatial ambiguities of EU rope. Embodying a crucial topo within the E uropean…
Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands
1. The order of the authors is alphabetical. It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, t…
Brussels is Speaking
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was presented as the EU's strategic response in order to deal with the new situation following the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. According to the EU, these changing circumstances have led to new rationales: 1) coping with its new external borders and neighbours and 2), finding a solution for a further enlargement problem. Both rationales are drawn out of strategic interest avoiding potentially …
Questioning the EU's Neighbourhood Geo-Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 95387.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Waiting Before the Law
In Kafka’s parable ‘Before the Law’ the man from the country waits his entire life before the border, represented as the Law. In this article, the act of waiting before the Law is analysed in the context of a geopolitical border. More particularly, the question of why we b/order ourselves is investigated. And when do we dare to enter/ open the gate? I discuss how this act of b/ordering can be understood as balancing the desire to flee, migrate, m…
Human Blacklisting
Over the last few years, the global face of the EU has been changing. The EU is spinning a global border web with regard to the battle against irregular migration. At the borders of the EU, a powerful and security-obsessed distinction between travellers is increasingly being constructed between the travellers who 'belong to' the EU and those who do not, based on the fate of birth. To this end, the EU has composed a so-called 'white and black' Sch…
Bordering, Ordering and Othering
n Contains fulltext :\n 74554.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
III European perspectives on borderlands
The number of geographical studies on borders and border regions has increased over the last few decades due to the process of globalization. The European Union (EU) integration process in particular has created demand for such studies of its internal borders and the changing views about them. This research aims to define trends within these geographical studies in terms of the EU integration process and discover commonalities of themes and metho…
The Geopolitics of Borders and Boundaries
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The European Union as a Gated Community
Within the European Union, an internal liberalisation of cross‐border labour mobility for EU citizens is currently being combined with the tightening of control and management efforts at the external borders. At the same time, attempts are being made to strategically select immigrants from new member states as well as from outside the EU who will be of economic value. In this paper we argue that by implementing such protectionist and selective im…
Reinventing Multiculturalism
A number of authors have recently suggested that cities are becoming increasingly important as sites for the negotiation of ethnic diversity. While multiculturalism has been declared 'dead' in many countries, cities are now experimenting with new ways to accommodate ethnic diversity. This article reports on research conducted in Amsterdam. In this city, a 'minority policy' has been replaced by a qualitatively different 'diversity policy'. Even th…
Europe's Shame
We start with some figures. About 2 million people live on the Canary Islands. On average, the islands handle about 9.5 million tourists per year. This substantial tourist industry contributes over 32% of the Islands' GNP. The entire accomodation sector consists of roughly 172,000 hotel beds and roughly 242,000 overnight places other than hotels. These figures represent interesting multinational flows, links and connections, but seldom determine …
Borders, Strangers, Doors and Bridges
n Contains fulltext :\n 74552.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Rethinking the biopolitical
This Symposium reflects on the growing relevance of biopolitical perspectives in camps studies, border studies, refugee studies, and in particular in research at the intersection between mobility studies and political geography. The five interventions accordingly engage with questions regarding the use of biopolitics as an analytical framework, but also as a pervasive strategy and governmental tool in Western societies. Through an analysis of sev…
The Power of Cross‐Border Labour Market Immobility
In this paper we critically address and interrogate the issue of cross‐border labour mobility in the European Union. Despite fifteen years of policy stimulation, cross‐border labour movements are still exceptions and not the dominant pattern. It is argued that it is a further understanding of the concept of im mobility more than mobility that should be at the core of the research on cross‐border labour markets. It is the critical awareness of the…
Waiting Before the Law
In Kafka’s parable ‘Before the Law’ the man from the country waits his entire life before the border, represented as the Law. In this article, the act of waiting before the Law is analysed in the context of a geopolitical border. More particularly, the question of why we b/order ourselves is investigated. And when do we dare to enter/ open the gate? I discuss how this act of b/ordering can be understood as balancing the desire to flee, migrate, m…
Reflections on EU territoriality and the ‘bordering’ of Europe
Beyond ‘Borderism’
Now, 20 years after our article “Bordering, Ordering and Othering”, the editorial team of TESG has asked me to look back on its formation, and to comment on the appraisals of its continued relevance and influence offered by Anssi Paasi, Bastian Vollmer, James Scott and Chiara Brambilla in this Forum. To this end, I will first explain what the inspiration was for our essay and will shortly revisit the geopolitical triadic frame that we proposed; t…
Borders of Comfort
n Contains fulltext :\n 74555.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands
1. The order of the authors is alphabetical. It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, t…
Lies, Damned Lies & Maps
n Contains fulltext :\n 149366.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Brussels is Speaking
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was presented as the EU's strategic response in order to deal with the new situation following the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. According to the EU, these changing circumstances have led to new rationales: 1) coping with its new external borders and neighbours and 2), finding a solution for a further enlargement problem. Both rationales are drawn out of strategic interest avoiding potentially …
Internationalisation and Mental Borders
n Contains fulltext :\n 74507.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Post-colonial nature conservation in Southern Africa
Questioning the EU's Neighbourhood Geo-Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 95387.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The Autoimmunity of the EU's Deadly B/ordering Regime; Overcoming its Paradoxical Paper, Iron and Camp Borders
In this article we argue that the EU suffers from autoimmunity: a self-harming protection strategy. Drawing on Derrida’s political understanding of autoimmunity, we contend that the root of this malfunction lies in the EU’s own b/ordering and othering policies, which are intended to immunise the foundational ethos of the EU. For this purpose, we dissect the EU border regime into three linked b/ordering mechanisms: the pre-borders of paper documen…
Elastic Migration
Along the Dutch-Belgian and Dutch-German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short-distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting que…
Re-imagining spaces of (in)difference
The Abduction of Europe
This article claims that the development of a European super–state is undesirable and unreal. Europe has never presented itself as a single bordered entity supported by a constitution and a clear definition of Europe and non‐Europe. The contemporary forceful abduction by the European Union re‐creates Europe as a bounded political entity institutionalised through treaties and acts. It is made a socio‐political cultural construction embedded in its…
Collective Discussion
Various measures of mobility restrictions were introduced since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This collective discussion examines them in relation to six different carceral techniques that govern movement: citizenship, nativism, colonialism, infrastructure, gender, and borders. We investigate how these spatializing techniques of carcerality have been modified and strengthened in the pandemic and their implications for how we conceptualiz…
Internationalisation and Mental Borders
n Contains fulltext :\n 74507.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
III European perspectives on borderlands
The number of geographical studies on borders and border regions has increased over the last few decades due to the process of globalization. The European Union (EU) integration process in particular has created demand for such studies of its internal borders and the changing views about them. This research aims to define trends within these geographical studies in terms of the EU integration process and discover commonalities of themes and metho…
Contextualising Regional Identity and Imagination in the Construction of Polycentric Urban Regions
In this contribution, we aim at positioning and sharpening the concept of 'polycentric urban region' (PUR) by comparing it with preceding approaches to interurban interdependency and by discussing its potentials and pitfalls. The main outcome of the comparison is that the notion of a PUR constitutes a strategic rather than an analytical concept. To unravel the pros and cons of the concept of PUR, a link is made between the strategic interpretatio…
Re-imagining spaces of (in)difference
Borders of Comfort
n Contains fulltext :\n 74555.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Borders, Strangers, Doors and Bridges
n Contains fulltext :\n 74552.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Post-colonial nature conservation in Southern Africa
Bordering, Ordering and Othering
n Contains fulltext :\n 74554.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Communicating borders
The Power of Cross‐Border Labour Market Immobility
In this paper we critically address and interrogate the issue of cross‐border labour mobility in the European Union. Despite fifteen years of policy stimulation, cross‐border labour movements are still exceptions and not the dominant pattern. It is argued that it is a further understanding of the concept of im mobility more than mobility that should be at the core of the research on cross‐border labour markets. It is the critical awareness of the…
Reinventing Multiculturalism
A number of authors have recently suggested that cities are becoming increasingly important as sites for the negotiation of ethnic diversity. While multiculturalism has been declared 'dead' in many countries, cities are now experimenting with new ways to accommodate ethnic diversity. This article reports on research conducted in Amsterdam. In this city, a 'minority policy' has been replaced by a qualitatively different 'diversity policy'. Even th…
The Geopolitics of Borders and Boundaries
n Contains fulltext :\n 46481.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Elastic Migration
Along the Dutch-Belgian and Dutch-German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short-distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting que…
"The shadows of no man's land"
In May 2004, only Greek Cyprus joined the European Union. The EU did not negotiate with Northern Cyprus as the Greek Cypriot government is acknowledged as sole representative of Cyprus. Despite this, after more than two years of EU membership, the Republic of Cyprus is seen in a positive light by the people of Northern Cyprus. Through the grey zone of the acquis communautaire, north Nicosia and Cyprus profit from European modernisation and the co…
The European Union as a Gated Community
Within the European Union, an internal liberalisation of cross‐border labour mobility for EU citizens is currently being combined with the tightening of control and management efforts at the external borders. At the same time, attempts are being made to strategically select immigrants from new member states as well as from outside the EU who will be of economic value. In this paper we argue that by implementing such protectionist and selective im…
The Fallacious Imperial Geopolitics of Eu Enlargement
Contains fulltext : 46256.pdf ( ) (Closed access)
The Abduction of Europe
This article claims that the development of a European super–state is undesirable and unreal. Europe has never presented itself as a single bordered entity supported by a constitution and a clear definition of Europe and non‐Europe. The contemporary forceful abduction by the European Union re‐creates Europe as a bounded political entity institutionalised through treaties and acts. It is made a socio‐political cultural construction embedded in its…
Trans‐world
In this introductory contribution to this special issue of TESG , we want to question the usual way of conceptualising places and borders in the debate about transnationalism. We argue, that in studies of transnationalism, on the one hand the idea of nation‐states as spatial containers is overcome, but on the other hand also reproduces the same spatial containers. Instead we suggest the use of the term ‘trans‐world’ to avoid any connotation sugge…
You‐cracy
n Contains fulltext :\n 74567.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Reflections on EU territoriality and the ‘bordering’ of Europe
The disoriented state
Europe's Shame
We start with some figures. About 2 million people live on the Canary Islands. On average, the islands handle about 9.5 million tourists per year. This substantial tourist industry contributes over 32% of the Islands' GNP. The entire accomodation sector consists of roughly 172,000 hotel beds and roughly 242,000 overnight places other than hotels. These figures represent interesting multinational flows, links and connections, but seldom determine …
Waiting Before the Law
In Kafka’s parable ‘Before the Law’ the man from the country waits his entire life before the border, represented as the Law. In this article, the act of waiting before the Law is analysed in the context of a geopolitical border. More particularly, the question of why we b/order ourselves is investigated. And when do we dare to enter/ open the gate? I discuss how this act of b/ordering can be understood as balancing the desire to flee, migrate, m…
Human Blacklisting
Over the last few years, the global face of the EU has been changing. The EU is spinning a global border web with regard to the battle against irregular migration. At the borders of the EU, a powerful and security-obsessed distinction between travellers is increasingly being constructed between the travellers who 'belong to' the EU and those who do not, based on the fate of birth. To this end, the EU has composed a so-called 'white and black' Sch…
Brussels is Speaking
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was presented as the EU's strategic response in order to deal with the new situation following the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. According to the EU, these changing circumstances have led to new rationales: 1) coping with its new external borders and neighbours and 2), finding a solution for a further enlargement problem. Both rationales are drawn out of strategic interest avoiding potentially …
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