J Schapendonk
Biographic Data
| ID | 18083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Schapendonk |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schapendonk |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAPENDONK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6099-0841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 586 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Migration through a mobilities lens: Considerations for a future research agenda
Moving behind the scenes of public space: The Differentiation of Market Traders' Routinized Mobilities
Contains fulltext : 320239.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
The moral economy of voice within IOM's awareness-raising industry: Gambian returnees and Migrants as Messengers
The ‘politics of voice’ of awareness-raising bends returnees’ stories towards moral tropes against illegalised migration. These stories are commodified, bringing awareness-raising within the migration industries. We address this commodification using data from an ethnographic study of the Migrants as Messengers (MaM) project run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in The Gambia since 2019 and through the concept that we call ‘mo…
The "system" as another sea: Contrasting mobility rules and migrant navigations
This article analyzes how African migrants are confronted in Europe with contrasting mobility rules. We argue that mobility rules not only come from formalized immigration bureaucracies but also emerge from people's transnational social spaces. From there, we first seek to capture the particular mobility regimes and the social imaginaries that produce desirable and undesirable mobility. Subsequently, we ethnographically engage with people's actua…
Mobility Edges: Reworking the Politics of Mobilities
This article presents a concept in motion that we call mobility edges. It is developed by combining and comparing insights from different academic fields such as ecology, economic geography, and citizenship studies, and addressing the importance of (disciplinary) edges as spaces of transition. Analogously, mobility edges can be seen as the transition zones, hybridities, overlaps, and porous boundaries between seemingly different types of mobility…
Research Handbook on Irregular Migration
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence 1350-2000
Sheltering difference: (Un)doing the migrant/volunteer divide through sheltering practices in Mexico and the Netherlands
While acknowledging the important role of shelter organizations in protecting migrant rights, recent debates point to the thin line between care and control practices within shelters. This study seeks to deepen this observation by approaching shelters as spaces defined by a constant inward/outward mobility of people. From this starting point, we use the de-migranticization framework to understand and question the normalization of difference that …
Welcome Cultures and the Chronopolitics of B/Ordering
In this paper, we explore how borders and associated processes – spatial othering and ordering – are reproduced, resisted and undermined temporally. To do so, we investigate ethnographically how ‘welcomers’ from volunteer pro‐refugee initiatives in Paris become involved in the chronopolitics of b/ordering. Our empirical analysis builds on the practice turn in border studies and on Sharma's chronography of power, which focuses on the relational di…
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs
The end of a long-standing autocratic regime in The Gambia renewed EUrope’s geopolitical interest in the externalisation of (return) migration management to the West African country. Since 2017, EUrope has financed several programmes implemented by a combination of international and local actors. Analysing original qualitative data through the lens of the sociology of translation (SoT) offered by actor-network theory (ANT), this paper explores th…
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: The Case of Marketplaces
Scholars have scrutinized the state-centered and sedentarist foundations of social sciences that pitch ‘mobilities’ against ‘places’ by arguing that places and mobilities always co-constitute each other. Contributing to this debate, this article deploys the concept of ‘regimes of mobilities’ to study how mobilities are not only ‘placed’, but also entangled in, and shaped by, different power systems. By regimes of mobilities we understand all the …
Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets
In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…
Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective
Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…
Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens
In migration studies, there is an increasing interest in understanding how migration processes are shaped by different forms of brokerage and mediation. We relate these debates to the everyday struggles of migrants in the city of Athens. In so doing, we propose a shift from the all-encompassing view on infrastructures, that is, as systematic entities of facilitation/control to the infrastructuring practices of migrants. This implies a focus on ho…
Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico
This paper discusses shelters in relation to the migration industry that shapes irregular migration from Central America to Mexico. Whereas the migration industry literature often separates migration facilitation from migration control, we instead position shelters at the intersection of the two domains. We use an assemblage approach to better understand how different institutions, policies, responsibilities, actors and discourses meet, clash and…
Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe
European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of this subfield by indicating how the lexicon of onward migration frames migratory processes as a staged process, involving a South–North directionality and hinting at a gradual progress for the migrants in question. This “grand narrative” of onward migration is anchored a…
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods
The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…
The conceptual limits of the 'migration journey'. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories
n Contains fulltext :\n 221965pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Method as Border: Tuning in to the Cacophony of Academic Backstages of Migration, Mobility and Border Studies
This thematic issue is a collection of articles reflecting on methods as border devices of hierarchical inclusion spanning migration, mobility and border studies. It maps some key concerns and responses emerging from what we call academic backstages of migration, mobility and border research by younger academics. These concerns are around (dis)entangling positions beyond Us/Them (i.e. researcher/researched), delinking from the spectacle of migrat…
Marketplaces as Public Spaces in Times of The Covid‐19 Coronavirus Outbreak: First Reflections
Marketplaces are regarded as quintessential public spaces, providing not only access to fresh produce but also functioning as important social infrastructures. However, many marketplaces closed down or changed fundamentally in response to the COVID‐19 coronavirus outbreak. In this paper, we reflect on the effects of the crisis on Dutch marketplaces from two interdependent analytical levels. From a ground level, we illustrate their ‘temporary deat…
From Sectors to Circuits: Re‐Describing Senegambian In/Formal Practices in Europe, and Beyond
While earlier accounts approach the informal economy as a sign of underdevelopment, particularly in the Global South, recent studies tend to re‐frame informal economic practices by acknowledging how it allows various actors to create spaces to manoeuvre. In this context, scholars emphasise the multiple linkages between formal and informal economic domains. To push this notion of intersected practices further, we move away from the notion of the ‘…
Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies
As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own ve…
Europe Is No Longer Europe: Montaging Borderlands of Help for a Radical Politics of Place
In this paper, we position the societal expectation of the ‘grateful refugee’ in the larger European script of placing migrant help and integration. We ask how might we re-imagine geographies of migrant ‘help’ so as to break with the dominant ontologies of places as sites embedded within the nation-state and the accompanying relations of power which displace the migrant in a perpetual penumbra of gratefulness? By montaging a series of contrapunta…
Being-here: Placemaking in a World of Movement
n Contains fulltext :\n 220496pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
Shifting itineraries of asylum hospitality: Towards a process geographical approach of guest-host relations
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
Navigating the migration industry: Migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control
n Contains fulltext :\n 197896pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The conceptual limits of the 'migration journey'. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories
n Contains fulltext :\n 221965pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processe…
What if Networks Move? Dynamic Social Network ing in the Context of African Migration to Europe
As a welcome alternative to economic explanations of migration, the social network has become a key concept in migration studies. However, by maintaining a static conceptualisation of networks (as grid‐like structures) and by suggesting that social capital automatically derives from networks, we tend to fall into a form of network determinism. As an alternative, this paper makes the case for a practice approach to social networks that recognise t…
Turbulent Trajectories: African Migrants on Their Way to the European Union
Sub-Saharan African migration towards the European Union (EU) belongs to one of the most stigmatized forms of migration of the 21st century. It is strongly characterized by EU’s restrictive migration policies. As a consequence, migrants who are aspiring to reach the EU often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. This contribution attempts to gain more empirical insights into these migratory journeys. It is based on a ‘trajecto…
Migrants' Im/Mobilities on Their Way to the EU: Lost in Transit
In the late 1990s transit migration to the European Union (EU) has emerged as a new field of discussion in both policy arenas and academia. It refers to migrants who are moving to third countries in the hope of reaching the EU after a short waiting period in the ‘transit country’. It is often seen as the missing link between emigration and settlement in the framework of irregular migration to the EU. This paper contributes to the transit migratio…
Shifting itineraries of asylum hospitality: Towards a process geographical approach of guest-host relations
Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies
As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own ve…
Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe
European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of this subfield by indicating how the lexicon of onward migration frames migratory processes as a staged process, involving a South–North directionality and hinting at a gradual progress for the migrants in question. This “grand narrative” of onward migration is anchored a…
Translating EUrope’s Return Migration Regime to The Gambia: The Incorporation of Local CSOs
The end of a long-standing autocratic regime in The Gambia renewed EUrope’s geopolitical interest in the externalisation of (return) migration management to the West African country. Since 2017, EUrope has financed several programmes implemented by a combination of international and local actors. Analysing original qualitative data through the lens of the sociology of translation (SoT) offered by actor-network theory (ANT), this paper explores th…
Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens
In migration studies, there is an increasing interest in understanding how migration processes are shaped by different forms of brokerage and mediation. We relate these debates to the everyday struggles of migrants in the city of Athens. In so doing, we propose a shift from the all-encompassing view on infrastructures, that is, as systematic entities of facilitation/control to the infrastructuring practices of migrants. This implies a focus on ho…
Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico
This paper discusses shelters in relation to the migration industry that shapes irregular migration from Central America to Mexico. Whereas the migration industry literature often separates migration facilitation from migration control, we instead position shelters at the intersection of the two domains. We use an assemblage approach to better understand how different institutions, policies, responsibilities, actors and discourses meet, clash and…
Marketplaces as Public Spaces in Times of The Covid‐19 Coronavirus Outbreak: First Reflections
Marketplaces are regarded as quintessential public spaces, providing not only access to fresh produce but also functioning as important social infrastructures. However, many marketplaces closed down or changed fundamentally in response to the COVID‐19 coronavirus outbreak. In this paper, we reflect on the effects of the crisis on Dutch marketplaces from two interdependent analytical levels. From a ground level, we illustrate their ‘temporary deat…
The Design, Experience and Justice of Mobility
The central argument of the ‘mobilities turn’, \nthat sedentarist frameworks have dominated \nsocial sciences for a long time, which has limited \nour understanding of mobilities (e.g. Cresswell \n2006, 2010; Hannam et al. 2006; Sheller & Urry \n2006; Urry 2007) – also applies to the spatial \ndisciplines, andhumangeography in particular. \nOfcourse, themovementandtransport ofgoods \nand people have always been on the agenda of \nthe spatial scie…
Method as Border: Tuning in to the Cacophony of Academic Backstages of Migration, Mobility and Border Studies
This thematic issue is a collection of articles reflecting on methods as border devices of hierarchical inclusion spanning migration, mobility and border studies. It maps some key concerns and responses emerging from what we call academic backstages of migration, mobility and border research by younger academics. These concerns are around (dis)entangling positions beyond Us/Them (i.e. researcher/researched), delinking from the spectacle of migrat…
The moral economy of voice within IOM's awareness-raising industry: Gambian returnees and Migrants as Messengers
The ‘politics of voice’ of awareness-raising bends returnees’ stories towards moral tropes against illegalised migration. These stories are commodified, bringing awareness-raising within the migration industries. We address this commodification using data from an ethnographic study of the Migrants as Messengers (MaM) project run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in The Gambia since 2019 and through the concept that we call ‘mo…
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: The Case of Marketplaces
Scholars have scrutinized the state-centered and sedentarist foundations of social sciences that pitch ‘mobilities’ against ‘places’ by arguing that places and mobilities always co-constitute each other. Contributing to this debate, this article deploys the concept of ‘regimes of mobilities’ to study how mobilities are not only ‘placed’, but also entangled in, and shaped by, different power systems. By regimes of mobilities we understand all the …
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods
The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…
Mobilities and Sediments: Spatial Dynamics in the Context of Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe
Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). …
Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets
In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…
The "system" as another sea: Contrasting mobility rules and migrant navigations
This article analyzes how African migrants are confronted in Europe with contrasting mobility rules. We argue that mobility rules not only come from formalized immigration bureaucracies but also emerge from people's transnational social spaces. From there, we first seek to capture the particular mobility regimes and the social imaginaries that produce desirable and undesirable mobility. Subsequently, we ethnographically engage with people's actua…
Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective
Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…
From Sectors to Circuits: Re‐Describing Senegambian In/Formal Practices in Europe, and Beyond
While earlier accounts approach the informal economy as a sign of underdevelopment, particularly in the Global South, recent studies tend to re‐frame informal economic practices by acknowledging how it allows various actors to create spaces to manoeuvre. In this context, scholars emphasise the multiple linkages between formal and informal economic domains. To push this notion of intersected practices further, we move away from the notion of the ‘…
Europe Is No Longer Europe: Montaging Borderlands of Help for a Radical Politics of Place
In this paper, we position the societal expectation of the ‘grateful refugee’ in the larger European script of placing migrant help and integration. We ask how might we re-imagine geographies of migrant ‘help’ so as to break with the dominant ontologies of places as sites embedded within the nation-state and the accompanying relations of power which displace the migrant in a perpetual penumbra of gratefulness? By montaging a series of contrapunta…
Staying Put In Moving Sands: The Stepwise Migration Process Of Sub-Saharan African Migrants Heading North
This chapter focuses on the stepwise migration process of sub-Saharan African migrants heading North with a strong actor-centred approach. It aims to gain more insights into the migration processes by investigating migrant's flexibility and dependency. The chapter examines the way sub-Saharan African migrants adapt to and use ' en-route places' in order to understand better the geographical notion of 'place' and the impact of mobility on places. …
Turbulent Trajectories: African Migrants on Their Way to the European Union
Sub-Saharan African migration towards the European Union (EU) belongs to one of the most stigmatized forms of migration of the 21st century. It is strongly characterized by EU’s restrictive migration policies. As a consequence, migrants who are aspiring to reach the EU often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. This contribution attempts to gain more empirical insights into these migratory journeys. It is based on a ‘trajecto…
Mobilities and Sediments: Spatial Dynamics in the Context of Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe
Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, sub-Saharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). …
Migrants' Im/Mobilities on Their Way to the EU: Lost in Transit
In the late 1990s transit migration to the European Union (EU) has emerged as a new field of discussion in both policy arenas and academia. It refers to migrants who are moving to third countries in the hope of reaching the EU after a short waiting period in the ‘transit country’. It is often seen as the missing link between emigration and settlement in the framework of irregular migration to the EU. This paper contributes to the transit migratio…
The Design, Experience and Justice of Mobility
The central argument of the ‘mobilities turn’, \nthat sedentarist frameworks have dominated \nsocial sciences for a long time, which has limited \nour understanding of mobilities (e.g. Cresswell \n2006, 2010; Hannam et al. 2006; Sheller & Urry \n2006; Urry 2007) – also applies to the spatial \ndisciplines, andhumangeography in particular. \nOfcourse, themovementandtransport ofgoods \nand people have always been on the agenda of \nthe spatial scie…
Sub-Saharan Migrants Heading North: A Mobility Perspective
Travellers and their journeys: A dynamic conceptualization of transient migrants' and backpackers' behaviour and experiences on the road
In this article it is argued that ‘the journey’—as an embodied form of travel from one place to the other—is a fruitful analytical starting point to bring migration and tourism studies in closer dialogue with each other. With our focus on the ‘en route’ behaviour and experiences of two prototypical mobile figures (the transient migrant and the backpacker), we go beyond the usual categorical divisions of human mobility based on temporality (tempor…
What if Networks Move? Dynamic Social Network ing in the Context of African Migration to Europe
As a welcome alternative to economic explanations of migration, the social network has become a key concept in migration studies. However, by maintaining a static conceptualisation of networks (as grid‐like structures) and by suggesting that social capital automatically derives from networks, we tend to fall into a form of network determinism. As an alternative, this paper makes the case for a practice approach to social networks that recognise t…
Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processe…
Navigating the migration industry: Migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control
n Contains fulltext :\n 197896pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Re-routing migration geographies: Migrants, trajectories and mobility regimes
Shifting itineraries of asylum hospitality: Towards a process geographical approach of guest-host relations
Being-here: Placemaking in a World of Movement
n Contains fulltext :\n 220496pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Method as Border: Tuning in to the Cacophony of Academic Backstages of Migration, Mobility and Border Studies
This thematic issue is a collection of articles reflecting on methods as border devices of hierarchical inclusion spanning migration, mobility and border studies. It maps some key concerns and responses emerging from what we call academic backstages of migration, mobility and border research by younger academics. These concerns are around (dis)entangling positions beyond Us/Them (i.e. researcher/researched), delinking from the spectacle of migrat…
Marketplaces as Public Spaces in Times of The Covid‐19 Coronavirus Outbreak: First Reflections
Marketplaces are regarded as quintessential public spaces, providing not only access to fresh produce but also functioning as important social infrastructures. However, many marketplaces closed down or changed fundamentally in response to the COVID‐19 coronavirus outbreak. In this paper, we reflect on the effects of the crisis on Dutch marketplaces from two interdependent analytical levels. From a ground level, we illustrate their ‘temporary deat…
From Sectors to Circuits: Re‐Describing Senegambian In/Formal Practices in Europe, and Beyond
While earlier accounts approach the informal economy as a sign of underdevelopment, particularly in the Global South, recent studies tend to re‐frame informal economic practices by acknowledging how it allows various actors to create spaces to manoeuvre. In this context, scholars emphasise the multiple linkages between formal and informal economic domains. To push this notion of intersected practices further, we move away from the notion of the ‘…
Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies
As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own ve…
Europe Is No Longer Europe: Montaging Borderlands of Help for a Radical Politics of Place
In this paper, we position the societal expectation of the ‘grateful refugee’ in the larger European script of placing migrant help and integration. We ask how might we re-imagine geographies of migrant ‘help’ so as to break with the dominant ontologies of places as sites embedded within the nation-state and the accompanying relations of power which displace the migrant in a perpetual penumbra of gratefulness? By montaging a series of contrapunta…
Sheltering as a destabilising and perpetuating practice in the migration management architecture in Mexico
This paper discusses shelters in relation to the migration industry that shapes irregular migration from Central America to Mexico. Whereas the migration industry literature often separates migration facilitation from migration control, we instead position shelters at the intersection of the two domains. We use an assemblage approach to better understand how different institutions, policies, responsibilities, actors and discourses meet, clash and…
Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe
European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of this subfield by indicating how the lexicon of onward migration frames migratory processes as a staged process, involving a South–North directionality and hinting at a gradual progress for the migrants in question. This “grand narrative” of onward migration is anchored a…
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods
The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mo…
The conceptual limits of the 'migration journey'. De-exceptionalising mobility in the context of West African trajectories
n Contains fulltext :\n 221965pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Re-producing public space: The changing everyday production of outdoor retail markets
In 2020, nation states across Europe restricted access to, and use of, public space to prevent the spread of COVID-19. As almost all public spaces in Europe were consequently affected by restrictive measures, so too did outdoor retail markets drastically change. Some had to close down completely, whereas others operated under the sway of severe limitations for traders and customers. By re-engaging with the work of the late Michael Sorkin, it coul…
Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective
Research on outdoor retail markets has focused on the diverse ways in which markets constitute public spaces where diversity and social inclusion coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities. This approach has prompted existing studies to focus on place-politics in terms of group- and spatially-bounded processes. In this paper, we take a relational mobility perspective to show that markets are not delineated and fixed entities. By appro…
Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens
In migration studies, there is an increasing interest in understanding how migration processes are shaped by different forms of brokerage and mediation. We relate these debates to the everyday struggles of migrants in the city of Athens. In so doing, we propose a shift from the all-encompassing view on infrastructures, that is, as systematic entities of facilitation/control to the infrastructuring practices of migrants. This implies a focus on ho…
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