Revisiting Borders and Boundaries
Exploring Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion from Intersectional Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15537850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolin Fischer (0000-0002-5995-5114, University of Neuchâtel, corresponding author), Christin Achermann (0000-0001-7223-9633, University of Neuchâtel), J Dahinden (0000-0003-1806-3520, University of Neuchâtel) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-485 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MIGRATION LETTERS (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-8984 • E-ISSN: 1741-8992 |
| Publisher | Dewspublication (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.59670/ml.v17i4.1085 |
| OpenAlex | W7116632189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
In recent years, scholarly interest in boundaries and boundary work, on the one hand, and borders and bordering, on the other, has flourished across disciplines. Notwithstanding the close relationship between the two concepts, “borders” and “boundaries” have largely been subject to separate scholarly debates, or sometimes treated as synonymous. These trends point to an important lack of conceptual and analytical clarity as to what borders and boundaries are and are not, what distinguishes them from each other and how they relate to each other. This Special Issue tackles this conceptual gap by bringing the two fields of studies together: we argue that boundaries/boundary work and borders/bordering should be treated as interrelated rather than distinct phenomena. Boundaries produce similarities and differences that affect the enforcement, performance and materialisation of borders, which themselves contribute to the reproduction of boundaries. Borders and boundaries are entangled, but they promote different forms and experiences of inclusion and exclusion. In this introduction, we elaborate the two concepts separately before examining possible ways to link them theoretically. Finally, we argue that an intersectional perspective makes it possible to establish how the interplay of different social categories affects the articulations and repercussions of borders and boundaries. The contributions in this Special Issue address this issue from multiple perspectives that reflect a variety of disciplines and theoretical backgrounds and are informed by different case studies in Europe and beyond
Boundary (topology · Boundary-work · CLARITY · Epistemology · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Intersectionality · Migration studies · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Variety (cybernetics · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Conceptual Practices Power
Intersektionalität. Zur Analyse sozialer Ungleichheiten
Blurred Boundaries
New Keywords
New directions in migration studies
Re-thinking the politics of migration. On the uses and challenges of regime perspectives for migration research
From state-centric to transversal borders
Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times
Bordering, Ordering and Othering
Ethnic Boundary Making
Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept
Intersectionality and Feminist Politics
Europe as Borderland
Boundary processes
Border Studies
Rethinking Ethnicity
Border/Control
Between Inclusion and Exclusion
Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Methodological nationalism and beyond
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Performing Border in the Aegean
A plea for the 'de-migranticization' of research on migration and integration
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |