In this chapter the authors discuss critical geographies of migration through a focus on two key sites: the border and the body. They outline critical approaches to the study of borders, which include discussions of specific borders (European Union, USA–Mexico, detention sites). They also detail the effects of the hierarchization of migrant bodies, and elaborate on this through a discussion of migrant experiences at work. The authors argue for the importance of bringing together geopolitical and biopolitical approaches to the critical geographies of migration, in a way that emphasizes embodied migrant practices. The chapter concludes by highlighting some ways in which approaches to the critical geographies of migration could be further developed.
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Front Matter
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PART I: New Issues in Critical Migration Research
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PART II: Corporeal and Gendered Geographies of Migration
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PART III: Borders, Violence and the Externalization of Control
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PART IV: Camps, Detention and Prisons
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PART V: Transnationalism and Diaspora
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PART VI: Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism
