Territorialising Places

This chapter turns to dilemmas of borders, boundaries and othering in relation to nation, migration and race, as interrelated aspects of territorialising resource allocations and subordinations within an imperative of closure and differential/subordinated inclusion. Nation, ‘race‘ and migration mark important spaces where struggles about where and how borders are placed for control and management of populations and resources are played out. This chapter looks at a range of bordering processes relating to collective categories and their contestations, and ways in which belonging is politicised and policed in various ways, hierarchising resources of different types. Borders around collectivities and national boundaries throw into play some of the violent and dislocating aspects of the categories of the collective ‘other’. The chapter delineates a family of concepts relating to collectivity, and then engages with the saliency of the ‘migrant’ category in relation to the so-called ‘migration and refugee crisis’ or the ‘turbulence of migration’. The chapter also examines racisms and nativisms, and the projects of racialisations, as both modes of exclusion and modes of exploitation. It also looks at the trope of diversity in the management of migration and difference and the related governmentalities through integration discourse and practice.

Geography · French Urban and Social Studies · Geology · Political Systems and Governance