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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Seyla Benhabib
Affiliation:
Yale University and Columbia Law School
Ayelet Shachar
Affiliation:
University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley
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Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects
Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders
, pp. 347 - 362
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Index

Accordion Model, 111, 120, 122
population-jurisdiction model, 122
territory-jurisdiction model, 122
accountability, 65, 104, 155, 183, 228, 236, 239, 241, 269270, 296
unaccountability, 20
Achiume, T. E., 39, 82, 88, 103, 176
activists, 5, 9294, 96, 154155, 157, 261262, 272, 275. See also Human Rights Watch; NGOs, Pro Asyl; volunteers
counter-externalization, 154
feminist groups, 157
Greenpeace, 157
indigenous, 18, 148, 166167, 170, 248, 259, 261262
nonviolent protesters, 180
transnational migrant, 248
activities, 56, 21, 94, 117, 152, 184, 194195, 197198, 201, 206
affinity, 8486, 88, 227. See also proximity
causation, 86
Afghanistan, 3, 37, 213214, 231. See also Taliban
Africa, 3, 117, 151152, 177, 184185, 187188, 194, 196, 199200. See also Black African migrants; European Union (EU), Trust Fund for Africa; Morocco, June 24, 2022 events (the Melilla massacre); special economic zones (SEZs)
racialized imagery of, 185
sub-Saharan, 186
Agamben, Giorgio, 72, 194, 234
Albania, 9
Algeria, 179180, 183
anarchism, 147
anarchy, 280281
anti-immigrant parties, 7. See also far-right parties; racism; xenophobia
Arendt, Hannah, 19, 6769, 72, 175176, 178
on the nation-state, 110
right to have rights, 176
views of refugees, 67
Asia, 196, 211
Central, 211
South, 53
Southeast, 199
asylum, 1, 47, 911, 13, 15, 1718, 21, 2938, 4041, 43, 4546, 49, 53, 56, 6066, 6974, 78, 8183, 86, 89105, 154, 156, 158, 160, 163171, 176, 188, 208, 211213, 220, 247250, 252256, 258260, 262266, 271, 273274, 282. See also detention; expedited removal; Italy, National Commission for the Right of Asylum; NGOs, Pro Asyl; persecution; protection; refoulement; safe third country; United States (USA), Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications (2019); United States (USA), Circumvention of Legal Pathways
“asylum shopping”, 60
admissibility interviews, 60, 71
airports, 9
Common European Asylum System, 63
credible fear of persecution, 34
EU Asylum Procedures Directive, 9
first country of, 64
for hearing, 34
responsibilities, 93
Trump asylum policy, 34
asylum seekers, 7, 34, 60, 6263, 66, 7072, 9598
agency of, 92
carceral circle, 220
vs. migrants, 12
as “migrants in disguise”, 91
offshoring asylum, 4
state’s obligations, 253
atmospheric pollution, 169
Australia, 8. See also excision zone; Manus Islands; Nauru; Pacific islands; Papua New Guinea
Austria, 50. See also Vienna
authoritarian rule, 209
authorization law, 4
Balibar, Étienne, 69. See also égaliberté; excision zone; Manus Islands; Nauru; Pacific islands; Papua New Guinea
on refugees, 69
views on European migration, 209
Balkans, 40
Bangladesh, 3, 169
Belgium, 62, 8081, 88, 103, 180
belonging, 39, 46, 259, 274, 286
Benhabib, Seyla, 1, 4, 10, 33, 40, 43, 50, 5556, 69, 110, 124, 126, 158, 175176, 192193, 210, 254, 264, 266268, 292, 294
on refugee rights, 4
views on deterritorialization, 4
bible. See Old Testament
biometrics. See migration control, biometric data
birthright citizenship, 8
Black African migrants, 185
body, 67, 105, 111, 123, 129, 142, 165, 223, 229230, 243
irregularized bodies, 211
Boe, Carolina Sanchez, 220
border, 27, 1112, 1517, 19, 2124, 2930, 3235, 37, 45, 47, 49, 55, 60, 65, 69, 7576, 78, 81, 8384, 8692, 9597, 100, 102, 104105, 109113, 116124, 143, 151152, 154155, 162, 175177, 181186, 188189, 191, 198, 208209, 213214, 217, 221222, 225, 228231, 235, 247248, 250255, 257, 259267, 269270, 273280, 283284, 287293, 295. See also Accordion Model; critical border theory; sea; United Nations (UN), Integrated Border Management; United States, Border Patrol; US-Mexico border; wall, the; Watershed Model
as authority, 229
as authority vs. control, 229
binational, 5
brick and mortar (media image), 3
closed, 110
constitutive, 16
control, 19
coshared, 5
death and disappearance zone, 175
digital, 230
disciplining effect, 92
externalization, 151
extraterritorialization, 175
frontier, 176
ideology, 93
international, 158
linear, 109
moveable, 156
moving, 163
national, 30
open, 110
operational, 183
policing, 247
policing beyond, 82
politics, 264
porous (neither completely open nor completely closed), 288
private, 20
reconsidered, 16
regime, 24
regressive regimes, 267
security, 119
shifting border, 89, 19, 22, 47, 56, 176, 247, 267, 283, 296. See also Shachar, Ayelet
sovereign, 30
temporal, 50
territorial limits, 209
Westphalian, 110
zonal, 116
bordering, 3, 1718, 20, 51, 55, 78, 89, 111, 226
activities, 3
re-bordering, 268
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1
Bosnia, 47
boundaries, 1, 44, 50, 5455, 109, 112115, 121, 124, 137138, 192, 198, 205, 210, 216, 257, 267, 284, 286288, 292
dynamic view of, 287
membership, 283
Bourdieu, Pierre, 226
Brazil, 176
Brexit, 3, 8
Britain. See United Kingdom
Buchanan, Allen, 112, 121
buffer zones, 222
Bulgaria, 64
Burma. See Myanmar
Calais, 95
Cameroon, 37
Canada, 14, 34, 48, 61, 63, 119120
The Canadian Council for Refugees et al v Minister for Immigration and Mi nister for Public Safety, 63. See also United States (USA), Safe Third Country Agreement (with Canada) (2002)
Canary Islands, 183. See also Spain
capitalism, global, 207
cease fires, 54
Central America, 14, 65, 162, 255, 260
Chad, 181
children, 31, 34, 3940, 47, 81, 91, 165166, 218, 266
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 165
China, 20, 194, 196, 199, 202, 204. See also special economic zones (SEZs)
Baishizhou, 203
Chinese territorial rule within African countries, 200
Deng Xiaoping, 202
Shenzhen, 202
citizens, 2224, 30, 45, 47, 50, 59, 69, 75, 77, 112, 134, 145, 179, 193, 195, 197, 205206, 209, 216, 227, 234235, 241242, 251255, 262264, 267, 270, 273, 275, 277, 279, 281, 284293. See also permanent residents
noncitizens, 287
as potential migrants, 24, 287289, 291
citizenship, 3, 13, 29, 31, 41, 4347, 52, 5657, 68, 83, 210, 213, 235, 238, 249, 257, 259, 270, 274, 283, 285286, 294. See also European Union (EU), citizenship
disaggregated, 184
civil rights, 285. See also human rights
civil society, 75
civil wars, 260
climate changes, 2. See also rising sea levels
crises, 10
displacement, 18
mobilities, 12
Nansen Initiative (2015), 171
natural disaster, 53
refugees, 18
weather-related displacements, 53
Cold War, 118
collective expulsion, 81, 186187, 190
collective punishment, 180, 189
collective selves, 127
Colombia, 3
colonialism, 19, 103, 146, 176179, 183184, 190
colonies, 17, 117, 147, 149, 178, 180, 183
communal cultural rights, 171
communism, 260
community, 14, 16, 18, 23, 29, 37, 6771, 74, 8485, 88, 101, 125126, 128, 133, 155, 165, 169171, 203, 219, 252, 265, 272274, 286. See also affinity
political, 77, 8586, 287289, 291
Congo, Belgian (Zaire during the colonialism), 180
Consensus, 196
contiguous zone, 14, 149
control. See migration control
cosmopolitanism, 22, 110, 251, 253256, 261, 263
democratic, 22, 162, 259
Council of Europe, 9, 185
Cover, Robert, 191
COVID-19, 222
crime survivors, 40
criminals (disguised as refugees), 33, 91, 182
gang violence, 35, 160
racialized determinations of culpability, 176
critical border theory, 265266, 277, 279
Cuba, 184
decision-making, 5, 14, 66, 101, 238, 254, 264, 272, 275, 287288, 290293, 295
democratic, 207
demoi-cratic, 290, 292
national, 289
defense, 16, 19, 92, 113114, 187, 261, 264, 285. See also security
democracy, 20, 6769, 95, 185, 206207, 234, 253, 269, 285, 288289, 296
constitutional, 178
nonsovereign, 207
democratic backsliding, 205
democratic governance, 11, 24, 263
democratic iterations, 69, 267268
democratic legitimacy, 192, 194, 196, 199, 258
democratic regulation, 192, 206
democratic responsibility, 13, 59
democratic theory, 22, 238, 269, 279
demography, 3
demoi-cracy, 292, 294
Denmark, 47, 61, 146. See also Germany, Danish Company Tax Liability Case (1971)
Parliament passed legislation allowing, 61
deportation, 10, 44, 4748, 52, 57, 93, 98, 223225, 274. See also detention; refoulement
removal centers, 214, 222226
detention, 33, 180, 195, 220, 223224, 266. See also deportation, removal centers; Guantanamo Bay (American military detention site in Cuba)
diaspora, 101
digital identity, 232233, 238, 241242. See also migration control
digital platform, 231
discrimination, 3, 40, 75, 79, 99, 103, 282, 284
racist, 14
displaced people, 3, 1314, 2021, 30, 39, 41, 4345, 4748, 50, 5455, 5758, 75, 160161, 200, 208211, 214217, 221224, 226227, 232233. See also climate changes, weather-related displacement
governing techniques to monitor, 210
State-based programs to admit, 78
domestic law, 2930, 36, 142
dominium, 16, 125129, 131, 133134, 138142, 144, 146, 148, 155, 157, 195. See also Roman Law
Dubai, 198
Dublin Regulation, 61, 6364
earthquakes, 48, 53. See also environment
economic space of exception, 195, 197198, 200, 206. See also special economic zones (SEZs)
égaliberté, 69
El Salvador, 32, 48, 65, 262
emancipatory potentiality, 265
enclaves, 20, 115116, 177, 181183, 192200, 205207. See also special economic zones (SEZs)
private economic zones, 192, 195
England, 147. See also United Kingdom
environment, 36, 88, 145, 150, 161, 163, 197198, 236, 238, 257, 260261. See also atmospheric pollution; climate change; earthquakes; hurricane; rising sea level; state, land, water, and air
inhospitable, 118
regulatory, 196
uninhabitable, 18, 54
environmental movements, 251
environmental sustainability, 262263
equality, 19, 69, 110, 177178, 180, 184, 234, 256, 258, 282, 295
before the law, 176178, 180, 184
Eritrea, 94
Ethiopia, 37, 184, 275
Eurocentricism, 185. See also racism; xenophobia
Europe, 3, 56, 14, 24, 30, 33, 44, 51, 60, 64, 71, 75, 95, 99, 113114, 116117, 152, 169, 185, 189190, 210, 212213, 222223, 226227, 231, 275. See also Council of Europe; xenophobia
Eurodac database, 231
postwar, 30, 48, 169
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), 8, 79, 168
European Court of Human Rights, 8, 62, 79, 8283, 177
European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 237
European migration law, 6
European supranational courts, 5
European Union (EU), 8, 14, 21, 33, 41, 47, 57, 61, 6364, 71, 75, 99, 151, 177, 182, 294. See also asylum, EU Asylum Procedures Directive; Dublin Regulation; Ukraine, Temporary Protected Status of Ukrainian refugees
citizenship, 294
Frontex (European Union’s border enforcement agency), 151152, 154, 255
Integrated Border Management, 248
investigations, 4
internal migration, 294
Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre (MRCC), 152
migration and asylum, 9
Parliament, 9
Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), 75
Trust Fund for Africa, 184
exceptionalism, 11, 29, 32
excision zone, 155
exclusion (of human beings), 16, 51, 60, 69, 82, 131, 134, 138, 229, 275, 278, 288
expedited removal, 34
exploitation of workers, 17, 20, 72, 100, 147, 156, 194195, 197, 200, 204. See also China, Shenzhen; labor migration; special economic zones (SEZs)
scandals, 202, 205
spaces of exploitation, 195
stratification, 20, 22, 24, 283
suicide, 204
work conditions, 204
export processing zones (EPZ), 194197. See also multinational corporations (MNCs); special economic zones (SEZs)
exteriority, 113, 143, 146, 157, 207, 259
anarchic elements of, 146
extraterritorial jurisdiction, 80, 82. See also territorial jurisdiction
famine, 11, 29. See also food insecurity
Fanon, Frantz, 181, 189, 222
far-right parties, 208. See also anti-immigrant parties; nationalism; racism; xenophobia
Fassin, Didier, 73
Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011), 73
Febvre, Lucien, 109110
final destination, 96
first safe country, 102
floating populations, 207, 211, 220221
food insecurity, 53, 160, 162. See also famine
Foucault, Michel, 220
France, 51, 80, 95, 113116, 168, 177, 180, 220, 273. See also Calais; Napoleon; Paris
Case of Mr. A, 168
French regulations on entry, residence and asylum (CESEDA), 169
freedom, 6970, 7778, 98, 110, 130, 136, 138, 143, 146148, 150, 152, 154, 157, 190, 227, 235, 273274, 293, 295. See also human liberties; transnational movement of people
of movement, 2, 158
at sea, 147
gatekeeping, 5, 20, 210
gender, 99, 229, 272. See also activists, feminist groups; LGBTIQ+ rights; sea, Women on Waves
gender-based violence, 12
Geneva Convention of the Rights of Refugees (1951)
1967 Additional Protocol, 160
geography, 2, 20, 99, 139, 176, 184, 194, 198200, 208, 211214, 236. See also territorial trap
economic, 19, 192193, 198, 200, 230
geographic insulation, 32
geographic proximity, fallacy of, 7576, 86
private, 192
privatized, 198
Germany, 14, 40, 5051, 95, 142, 212, 273
Danish Company Tax Liability Case (1971), 141
Giddens, Anthony, 109, 117
global age, 20, 192, 194, 196. See also transnational movement of people
global capital, 203
Global North, 20, 30, 32, 39, 4546, 51, 57, 60, 210, 219220, 282
global reform, 289290
Global South, 18, 20, 33, 57, 161, 221, 232, 242
grassroots movements, 23, 261, 273
Greece, 33, 62, 64, 145, 212, 216, 223
Greek islands, 208
Grotius, Hugo, 17, 143, 145148, 156. See also sea, mare liberum
group-based approach, 41
Guantanamo Bay (American military detention site in Cuba), 195
Guatemala, 32, 65, 260, 262
civil war, 260
Gulf States, 44
Gulliver’s Travels, 110111, 123
Habermas, Jurgen, 267
rational reconstruction, 267
Haiti, 48
Hathaway, James C., 4, 6, 12, 176. See also politics of nonentrée
The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005), 62
health, 11, 35, 53, 165166, 171, 218, 271
healthcare, 169, 215216, 218, 220
Hobbes, Thomas, 126, 131134, 139140
Leviathan (1651), 139
Holocaust, 30, 45. See also World War II
homelessness, 184
antihomeless legislation, 184
Honduras, 247
Hong Kong, 202
hostility, 2, 32, 232
human dignity, 39, 92, 159
human encounter, 87
human freedom, 192
human liberties, 289. See also freedom
human relations, 85, 131132, 134
human rights, 2, 56, 10, 1314, 18, 30, 39, 41, 43, 45, 51, 59, 62, 6466, 6869, 7374, 7677, 79, 8183, 8689, 154155, 158, 161, 163168, 172, 188, 190191, 227, 231, 234, 239, 242, 248249, 252, 266267, 274, 296. See also civil rights; rightless subjects; treaties; United Nations (UN), Human Rights Council
abuse, 94
collateral dissolution of, 10
critique of, 74
ends of international, 13, 59
integrity of human rights, 13
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), 63
International Bill of Human Rights (1948), 180
law, 30, 74, 7677, 79, 158, 163, 190, 231
Human Rights Watch, 93, 222223, 235
human slavery. See trafficking
humanitarian ideas, 59. See also protection, humanitarian; values
humanity, 16, 23, 6769, 74, 87, 97, 126, 137, 178
community of humanity, 85
hurricane, 48, 247
storm surges, 167
Hussain, Nasser, 177180
immigrants, 1, 7, 40
external, 294
internal, 293295
invasion by, 187
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), 37
immigration, 8, 11, 29, 3436, 38, 47, 63, 7273, 110, 119, 163. See also forced migrants; migration
illegal, 119
law, 3638, 42
policy, 38
imperium, 16, 121, 125128, 131, 133134, 138142, 144, 146, 148, 155, 157, 195. See also Roman Law
inclusion (of human beings), 16, 23, 29, 55, 67, 69, 71, 127, 233234, 264265, 270272, 275277, 287
India, 3, 179, 194, 200201, 241
Hindus, 3
national development projects, 200
indigenous populations, 143, 148
individuals as juridical subjects, 19
integrity, 13, 59, 61, 64, 67, 71, 126, 134, 243, 283. See also human rights, integrity of
communal, 294
moral, 102
interjurisdictional policy, 6
international agreements, 56, 59
international conflicts, 11, 29
international cooperation, 43
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 79, 167, 239
international law, 11, 17, 62, 74, 91, 9799, 141144, 150, 157, 239, 251, 254
invisible to, 194
of the sea, 5, 143, 149
international legal process, 142
international legal regime, 15, 91, 159
international legal theory, 195
international order, 248, 252
International Organization of Migration (IOM), 6
Missing Migrants Project, 17
international relations, 11
international system, 1, 11, 23, 29, 67, 105, 248
Iran, 3, 94, 95, 211, 213214
Iraq, 103
islands, 4, 9, 54, 161, 167, 196
Israel, 94, 139. See also Eritrea; Somalia
Italy, 9, 6364, 80, 82, 168
Democratic Party, 168
Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy (2012), 187
Lamorgese Decree, 168
M5S, 168
Meloni, Giorgia, 168
National Commission for the Right of Asylum, 168
Salvini Decree, 168
Ivory Coast, 186
Jamaica, 241
Jamaican Supreme Court, 241
Julian J. Robinson v. The Attorney General of Jamaica (2019), 241
jurisdiction, 12, 4, 6, 8, 1112, 1516, 19, 23, 60, 7982, 89, 112113, 121122, 124, 131, 139, 141143, 147, 149, 157, 162, 175178, 182183, 186, 189, 193, 195, 197, 230, 241242, 249250, 252, 254, 256258, 263, 280
jurisdictional regimes, 19. See also extraterritorial jurisdiction; territorial jurisdiction
nonsovereign forms of jurisdiction, 194
private jurisdiction, 200
justice and democracy, dialectics of, 280, 284
Kafka, Franz, 220
Kafkaesque legal construction, 7
Kant, Immanuel, 16, 85, 125126, 128138
common possession of the Earth, 130, 136
conclusive acquisition, 130
equal freedom, 130
public right, 130
rightful private property, 130
state of nature, 125, 129130, 132133
taking control (occupatio), 136
Kenya, 235, 240241
Kiribati, the republic of, 18, 163165, 169. See also New Zealand; Teitiota Case (2020)
Kurdistan, 95, 213
labor migration, 158, 160. See also exploitation of workers; export processing zones (EPZs); migrants, Migrant Workers Convention (1990); special economic zones (SEZs)
informal labor market, 216
workplaces, 193, 207, 224
land monopolization, 192
Latin America, 196197, 261
law, concept of, 191
as nomos, 191
lawful lawlessness, 19, 177178, 181, 182
lawful status, 29, 32, 3738, 41
lawfulness, 62, 65, 177178
lawless zones, 45, 910, 21, 182
lawlessness, 177178, 181, 210, 227
lawmaking, democratic process of, 5
Lebanon, 81
legal cartographies, 283. See also geography
legal identity, 233234, 243. See also biometrics; United Nations (UN), Sustainable Development Goals
legal precarity, 210, 215, 227
legal safeguard, 228
legitimacy, 22, 7677, 84, 129, 190, 192, 207, 236, 247251, 253255, 257259, 262, 277, 279
LGBTIQ+ rights, 219
liberty, 126, 129, 133134, 149, 266
Libya, 33, 154, 184, 271
Locke, John, 16, 125126, 128132, 134138, 143
Longo, Matthew, 5, 16, 109, 121
Madagascar, 199
Mali, 186
Mann, Itamar, 5, 1617, 69, 8788, 110, 136, 141, 150152, 154156, 178, 190, 266
Manus Islands, 93
Marx, Karl, 62, 206
Mauritania, 152, 184
Mauritius, 199, 241
medieval times, 113, 115116, 120122, 175, 203
Mediterranean Sea, 6, 17, 33, 39, 150, 154, 157, 209, 266
membership boundaries, 283, 286, 292
membership regime, 294. See also boundaries, membership
Mexico, 3, 67, 3234, 37, 65, 109, 113, 118120, 247, 250, 253, 255, 260262. See also US–Mexico border
fear of revolution in Chiapas, 260
Mexican Revolution, 119
migration from Central America, 260
Middle East, 33, 187, 210, 228
migrants, 2, 45, 7, 1012, 15, 1719, 2122, 24, 2930, 3233, 3544, 5051, 55, 60, 7677, 8083, 8792, 9597, 99100, 102, 104105, 118119, 134, 154160, 162, 175176, 181190, 208, 213214, 217, 220, 226, 228229, 247248, 251252, 254255, 256, 258259, 262, 264266, 268, 272273, 276, 278, 281289, 291295. See also European Union (EU); immigration; International Organization of Migration; justice and democracy, dialectics of; labor migration; Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) (2015–2016); reconstructive migration theory
Arabs, 209
vs. asylum seekers, 12
boats, 5, 8, 33, 145, 254
of color, 181, 190
economic, 12, 32, 252253, 257
economically valuable, 283
forced, 13, 32, 3842, 90, 158, 160
international, 289, 292, 295
international rights, 253
irregular, 11, 29, 214, 266
legal entry, 188
Migrant Workers Convention (1990), 159
mobile humans, 9091, 103
Muslim, 3, 211212
physical presence on the territory, 4, 21, 36, 84, 230231, 251
poor and unskilled, 283
potential, 287
rightlessness of international, 19, 22, 176177, 242
UN definition of, 159
undocumented, 21, 37, 45, 52, 213, 221224, 226, 252, 255, 257258, 273
unprivileged, 91
migration, 25, 6, 911, 13, 17, 1921, 2324, 29, 33, 3637, 3941, 4346, 4951, 5358, 61, 67, 69, 77, 80, 8283, 8889, 92, 100101, 118, 150, 152, 155, 158159, 162, 171, 175177, 179, 181182, 184, 187, 209213, 216218, 220222, 224225, 229, 232, 242, 247, 255257, 260, 263271, 274275, 278281, 283284, 287, 289295
circular, 51
cooperation agreements, 4, 5, 17, 24, 65
as decolonization, 88
democratic, 24, 281
demoi-cratic migration governance, 281, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295
Global Compact on Migration (2018), 171
governance, 280, 289
impermanent, 51
law, 29
as a matter of justice, 282
mixed, 100
“promised lands” of, 21
regulation, 30, 211
Western states’ migration law, 282
migration control, 3, 56, 19, 33, 82, 150, 175177, 179, 183184, 229, 242, 260, 266, 293
biographic data, 229, 233
biometric data, 22, 228, 230, 232233, 235243
and consent, 184
deterritorialization of border controls, 228
digital technologies, 228, 230
and doubtful consent, 236
exercise of control vs. exercise of authority, 16
extraterritorial, 5
juridical techniques, 177
losing control, 3
“nonentrée” techniques, 4
“unterritoriality” of data, 230
migration governance, 24, 281. See also border, digital; digital identity; Europe, Eurodac database; United Nations (UN), Population Registration and Identity Management EcoSystem (PRIMES) (2015); United States (USA), US-VISIT database/Office of Biometric Identity Management
violent techniques of, 4
migration, modern regimes, 285
Miller, David, 29, 45, 8688, 129, 252, 280, 286
mobility, 23, 10, 15, 18, 22, 24, 4445, 5254, 57, 82, 85, 8891, 93, 122, 146147, 158160, 162, 170, 184, 190, 205, 210, 213, 216217, 220221, 223, 225226, 229230, 247248, 258259, 267, 274275, 281, 283, 287, 290, 292293
International Mobility Convention Model, 158159
of migrants, 185
monopolization, 194, 201, 206
moral obligations, 284
Morocco, 2, 182, 184186. See also Spain, Ceuta; Spain, Melilla
June 24, 2022 events (the Melilla massacre), 181183
Spanish–Moroccan border, 182, 184, 188
movement, 2, 4, 10, 14, 21, 24, 60, 71, 77, 90, 104, 110, 118, 137, 144146, 156, 158, 162, 180, 191, 210211, 213, 215216, 220, 225, 229, 231232, 235, 242, 251, 257258, 262263, 267, 274, 280, 287, 292
forced, 4344, 50, 210, 272
legitimate means of moving, 21
multinational corporations (MNCs), 193, 261
Muslim minorities, 212
Myanmar, 37, 235. See also Rohingya refugees
Napoleon, 117
Näsström, Sofia, 68, 70, 269
national actors, 10
subnational, 10
supranational, 5, 10, 270
natural disasters. See climate changes; earthquake; hurricane; rising sea level
national identity, 235, 242, 259
nationalism, 111
ethnonationalism, 3
methodological, 111, 266
nationalization, 200
nation-centered concepts of justice, 29
natural rights, 125126, 130, 133, 137139, 195
natural space, 125127, 129, 131, 134135, 137140
ontology of, 125, 134, 138
naturalness, problem of, 109
Nauru, 33, 9394
necropolitics, 190
neighboring states, 4, 14, 76, 79, 88, 112, 115, 227
neoliberalism, 3, 198
Nepal, 48
Netherlands, 146147
New Zealand, 14, 18, 48, 163, 165. See also Kiribati, the republic of; Pacific islands; South Tarawa; Teitiota Case (2020); Tuvalu
Immigration and Protection Tribunal, 163
Supreme Court, 163
NGOs, 99, 222, 269, 272
Pro Asyl, 99
Nicaragua, 47
Niger, 33, 93
Nigeria, 184
“nonarrival” territorial spaces, 4, 9
North Africa, 185
North America, 57, 116
North Macedonia, 8182, 189
Memedov v North Macedonia (2021), 189
Old Testament, 144
Pacific islands, 18, 161, 163
Pakistan, 3, 231
Papua New Guinea, 33, 93, 167
Paraguay, 262
Paris, 114, 170
peoplehood, 69. See also public, the
permanent residents, 30
persecution, 23, 1213, 15, 3031, 35, 41, 44, 48, 50, 54, 56, 7172, 9094, 96, 98, 100103, 159160, 168169, 217. See also asylum, credible fear of persecution; political opinion; race; religion; social group
personhood, 19, 67, 7273, 131, 134, 176
planetary crisis, 259. See also changes; environment
political action, 84, 142143, 156157, 207
theory of, 84
political agency, 59, 69, 278, 285, 294
political imaginaries, 274
political institutions, 67
political norms, 266
political opinion, 12, 3031, 159, 163, 169
political oppression, 209, 253, 273
political representation, 264265, 268270, 273279. See also representation theory
political society, 144
political subject, 73, 84
politics of nonentrée, 176
population engineering, 210
Portugal, 114, 182
postcolonialism, 1
poverty, 1112, 22, 29, 41, 90, 162, 202, 248, 259. See also famine; food insecurity; migrants, poor and unskilled
slums, 202203, 205
precarity, normalization of, 13
privacy, 239, 241, 243
constitutional right to, 239
private realm, 192193
privatization, 156, 198, 200201, 206
property ownership, 126127, 131
ownness, 134, 137138
private, 146
protection, 23, 6, 810, 1215, 1822, 2930, 3234, 36, 3841, 4450, 53, 55, 57, 5960, 62, 6465, 6768, 7071, 7389, 9197, 99100, 102, 104105, 154, 159160, 163, 166, 169, 179, 185, 211, 213216, 218220, 226, 228, 236237, 239240, 242, 255, 271, 282283, 285, 292, 294
access to, 7, 76, 82, 85
causation, 89
humanitarian, 168
as immigration policy, 3637
international, 7, 910, 7677, 88, 211, 213214, 217
international protection status (IPS), 214, 216223
refugees’ choices, 86
rings of, 6
systems of, 9
temporary, 13
Temporary Protected Status (TPS), 3638, 41, 44, 4649, 5253, 214218, 220223, 226
proximity, 14, 75, 77, 79, 8182, 84. See also affinity; geography, geographic proximity, fallacy of
physical, 76, 8182, 85, 87
rule of, 78, 89
public, the, 4, 7, 38, 59, 75, 164, 176, 192, 195, 199, 225, 242. See also peoplehood
public law, 128
public–private cooperation, 194195
punitive response, 2
pushback, 177, 183, 186187
race, 12, 3031, 79, 99, 159, 163, 169, 177179, 184, 186, 197, 272, 282
racial domination, 176179, 182
racial violence, 175
racialized status distinctions, 182, 184
racism, 75, 94, 176, 188189. See also anti-immigrant parties; discrimination, racist; far-right parties; xenophobia
institutionalized, 189
Rancière, Jacques, 84. See also democracy, radical; human rights, critique of
Rawls, John, 16, 126, 144, 156
Political LIberalism (1993), 126
A Theory of Justice (1971), 144
reconstructive migration theory, 265, 268270, 279
refoulement, 5, 47, 53, 6163, 7071, 73, 76, 7879, 82, 86, 89, 163, 176, 230
chain-refoulement, 78
nonrefoulement, 30, 158, 164, 167, 169, 171
refugee agency, 96, 102103, 264265, 278
refugeehood, 92, 103, 274
refugees, 2, 9, 1115, 1718, 2124, 2930, 3640, 4243, 45, 4750, 52, 56, 5960, 6465, 6970, 7273, 7578, 81, 8599, 102, 104105, 134, 156158, 160, 163, 176, 215, 225, 228, 230240, 242243, 252, 260, 264266, 270279, 281. See also climate changes, refugees; crime survivors; criminals (disguised as refugees); decision-making; displaced people; exceptionalism; final destination; Geneva Convention of the Rights of Refugees (1951); labor migration, workplaces; Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) (2015–2016); persecution; protection; refoulement; residency; risk management; Rohingya refugees; terrorists (disguised as refugees); transfer; United States (USA), Refugee Act (1980)
choices, 14, 77
control over their data, 228
criminal exploitation of, 100
definition, 100
vs. economic migrants, 257
families, 4, 47, 187, 213, 219
Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018), 234, 270
Global Refugee Forum (2019), 270
Global Summit of Refugees (2018), 265, 272
identification, 281
international law, 11
invited and invented, 272, 276
jurisdiction of, 4
in a legal no-man’s land, 228
as migrants, 9395, 102104
mixed status, 47
protection of, 96
refugee exceptionalism, 11
Refugee Parliament (Geflüchtetenparlament), 271
resettlement, 45, 47, 52, 5556, 64, 88, 9293, 218, 231234
satellite cities, 216219
self-organized political forums, 271
short-term status, 55
social benefits, 1112
spaces of inclusion, 270271
status of, 15
survivors in flight, 40
Syrians, 6465, 215216, 218
regime of dispossession, 200201
regression, 266
religion, 3, 12, 14, 3031, 79, 85, 159, 163, 272
removal, forced, 61. See also deportation; refoulement
repatriation, 168, 235
representation theory, 265, 268269, 278279
residence, 12, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 56, 160, 162, 169, 180, 203, 211212, 214215, 221, 281, 283284, 290, 292293
long-term, 283
temporary, 214
responsibility, 4, 89, 1314, 19, 39, 49, 5859, 64, 66, 6970, 7374, 79, 82, 8689, 103, 148, 168, 170, 176, 182183, 233, 235, 239, 242, 258, 262, 280, 289, 293. See also democratic responsibility
responsibility-sharing, 76, 82, 88, 171
rethinking, 5556
shared between states, 68
universalist obligatory proximity, 77
restrictionist movement, 119
“right to have rights”, 19, 57, 6769, 83, 176. See also Arendt, Hannah
rightless subjects, 45, 9, 21, 227, 283. See also migrants, rightlessness of international
Rio Grande, 39
rising sea levels, 18, 5354, 161, 167
risk management, 100
Rohingya refugees, 235, 240
Roma tribes (Romani people), 121
Roman law, 16, 125, 127128, 133, 195. See also dominium; imperium
Rwanda, 8, 9, 61, 9395, 98, 101, 103
Kagame, Paul, 94
safe third country, 1314, 5984, 94, 99, 208. See also asylum, first country of
Sarat, Austin, 177178
Saward, Michael, 268269, 276277
Schmitt, Carl, 194. See also state of exception
friend-enemy, 115
sea, 910, 1618, 136, 161162, 167, 169, 208, 209, 224, 254. See also activists; contiguous zone; European Union (EU), Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre (MRCC); international law of the sea; Mediterranean Sea; migrants, boats; movement, at sea; Grotius, Hugo; territorial waters; territoriality, floating; territory, floating; Turkey, Aegean Sea; United Nations (UN), Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Selden, John; United States, Coast Guard
12 mile rule, 149
defining and negotiating SAR zones, 150151
economic opportunities, 149
European shores, 61
fishing zones, 149
free, 146
global maritime, 147
international waters, 140, 151
mare clausum, 17, 136, 143, 147, 149, 152, 154155, 157
mare liberum, 17, 136, 143, 145152, 154156
maritime commons, 17, 142, 146147
maritime spaces, 142144, 146, 149150, 152, 154155, 157
territoriality, 141157
Women on Waves, 157
Second World War. See World War II
security, 14, 24, 33, 41, 68, 110, 119120, 122, 149150, 159160, 162, 183, 185, 222, 232, 238, 266, 282283. See also borders, security; defense; safety, public
Selden, John, 147
Senegal, 152, 184
Shachar, Ayelet, 36, 8, 13, 15, 20, 33, 43, 47, 55, 56, 60, 82, 89, 90, 105, 110, 124, 154, 158, 175176, 193, 209210, 228229, 231, 247, 251, 254, 257, 264, 266268, 283, 295. See also birthright citizenship; shifting border
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (2009), 8
The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (2020), 4, 43, 55, 110, 283
shelter, 41, 48, 57, 68
shifting border, 89, 19, 22, 47, 56, 176, 247, 267, 283, 296
asylum, 74
The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (2020), 4, 43, 55, 110, 283. See also citizenship; cosmopolitanism; democratic governance; equality, before law; grassroots movements; international order; jurisdiction; membership boundaries; migration; mobility; moral obligations; planetary crisis; private realm; public law; restrictionist movement; Shachar, Ayelet; sovereignty; Temporary Protection Status; territory; third country, safe; transnational movement of peoples
Singapore, 198, 203
slave trade, 146
social contract, 143145, 152, 155, 192193
social group, 12, 3031, 159, 163, 169, 271, 286287
Somalia, 9495
Song, Sarah, 110, 280, 286
South Sudan, 37, 181
South Tarawa, 164
sovereign grace, 32
sovereign power, 124, 126134, 139140, 178, 230
sovereign state, 121, 132, 144, 192, 206207, 209, 248, 253
sovereigntism, 22, 247, 251253, 256, 261, 263, 267
sovereignty, 12, 10, 19, 21, 109110, 112, 115117, 121, 141142, 146147, 149150, 155, 179, 183, 193, 207, 229, 251, 253, 261262, 284
territorial, 16, 124129, 131, 133134, 138140, 162, 251, 256
Soviet Union, 30. See also communism
Spain, 114, 116, 146, 181, 185188. See also Africa, sub-Saharan; Canary Islands; collective expulsion; immigrants, invasion by; operational border
Aliens Act (2015), 185
Ceuta, 177, 182185
Melilla, 177, 181183, 185186
N.D. and N.T. v. Spain, 177, 186191
pushback operations, 177, 187
Spanish security forces, 183
Spanish–Moroccan border, 182, 184, 186, 188
special regime, 185
spatiality, 210, 214
special economic zones (SEZs), 1920, 192207, 230. See also exploitation of workers; export processing zones (EPZs); jurisdictional regimes, nonsovereign forms of jurisdiction; multinational corporations (MNCs)
state, 19, 60, 66, 69, 71, 76, 78, 80, 86, 93, 95, 97, 103, 109, 112, 145, 175, 191, 207, 230, 255, 267, 287. See also Accordion Model; necropolitics; protection, systems of; precarity, normalization of; safe first country
absolute power, 226
acts, legality of, 83
anti-riot gear and tactics, 185
and capital, 192
domination, 178
exercising power, 189
failures, 39, 103, 191
international state system, 248
land, water, and air, 125127, 134, 139141
legal barrier, 7
maneuvers by, 10
member, 9, 41, 61, 6364, 75, 183184, 292295
monopoly, 21, 231
Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933), 141
obligations, 4, 14, 19, 23, 36, 39, 53, 55, 6263, 72, 7677, 78, 8182, 8489, 91, 93, 95, 99, 102104, 163, 165168, 170, 175176, 230, 240241, 243, 252253, 258, 260262, 281, 284, 292, 294296
practices, 64, 282
relationship with territories and borders, 109
as “victim”, 187
state of exception, 176, 182, 186, 194. See also Schmitt, Carl
statehood, 114, 140, 280
stereotypes of immigrants, 96
Sudan, 37
surveillance, 17, 117, 143, 150, 152154, 243, 293. See also migration control; safety, public; security; state
digital, 143
sustainability, 18, 23, 32, 260, 262263
Switzerland, 271
Syria, 8, 37, 40, 81, 209, 215, 222
Taliban, 94, 103
Teitiota Case (2020), 18, 158, 165
temporality, 210211, 216
temporary protection, 13, 41, 44, 4652, 55, 5758, 75, 168, 214215, 226
Temporary Protected Status, 13, 214, 226
terra firma, 4, 10, 142
terra nullius, 142
territorial jurisdiction, 8082, 115, 139, 162, 175176, 183, 189, 254, 256258, 263, 280
territorial legitimacy, 22, 248, 251
territorial trap, 111
territorial waters, 9, 141142, 149
territoriality, 12, 5, 1011, 1516, 112114, 127, 131, 139, 141157, 193, 205206, 261, 281. See also exteriority
deterritorialization, 51, 124, 155, 228, 256, 267
floating, 17
hidden territories, 192
nonterritoriality, 142, 156157
reterritorialization, 4, 25, 124
universal, 142145, 148149, 155, 230
territory, 1, 4, 610, 12, 14, 16, 1819, 2122, 24, 36, 43, 7778, 8183, 8991, 95, 98, 110117, 120128, 131, 139140, 142, 156, 162163, 175176, 179, 183, 186187, 189, 195, 197198, 201, 206, 228231, 233, 243, 248263, 280281, 284, 292
floating, 141, 147148
materiality of, 124
private, 144, 193194, 206
as a process, 143
propertarian ontology of, 134138
“safe”, 91
terrorists (disguised as refugees), 91
third country. See safe third country
Torres Straits Island Case (2022), 18, 158
torture, 63, 72, 160, 164, 168
Convention against Torture (CAT), 31, 79
psychological, 46
totalitarian regime, 178
trafficking, 37, 72, 99
transfer (of asylum seekers and refugees), 6364, 225, 242243
transit countries, 6, 8, 73
transit zones, 9
transnational movement of peoples, 2
transnational power relations, 11
transnational rights, 291, 293294
treaties, 183
Treaties of Bayonne (1866–1868), 116
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1846–1848), 118
Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659–1660), 116
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), 114
Treaty of Versailles (1919), 117
Tunisia, 2, 5
Turkey, 3, 5, 2021, 33, 6465, 71, 73, 78, 81, 208214, 216217, 221227, 248. See also authoritarian rule; displaced people; floating populations; labor migration, informal labor market; legal precarity; population engineering; migration control, governing technologies; protection, international protection status (IPS); protection, Temporary Protected Status (TPS); refugees, satellite cities
Aegean Sea, 208
AKP government, 221
antirefugee discourse, 208
dilution and sweeping policy, 226
EU–Turkey agreement, 5
Greek–Turkish land border, 222
Law on Foreigners and International Protection (LFIP) (2013), 213214, 216, 221, 224
migration regime, 20
Presidency of Migration Management of Turkey (PMM), 223
Reconnect project, 209
refugee law, 211
removal centers, 223
Tuvalu, 4849, 54
Uganda, 94
Ukraine, 14, 37, 41, 4748, 7576
Temporary Protected Status of Ukrainian refugees, 14
Ukraine–Russia War, 14
United Kingdom, 8, 61, 9395, 9899, 101, 103. See also Brexit; England
British Empire, 117, 147
colonies, 180
Criminal Tribes Act (1871), 180
deportation of Rwanda immigrants, 98
English Channel, 95
government, 8, 93
Illegal Migration Bill, 8
Post-Brexit, 8
Supreme Court, 8
United Nations, 23, 3031, 117, 159, 187, 212, 239240, 242243, 270
United Nations (UN) Commission on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 2. See also migrants, UN definition of; migration control, biometric
Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 5, 143
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 3, 1314, 21, 3031, 53, 6162, 73, 96, 160161, 208, 215, 217, 219220, 228243, 266, 271
Human Rights Committee (CCPR), 18, 79, 158, 163164, 166168, 172
Human Rights Council, 183
Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, 18
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) (2019), 61, 233
Population Registration and Identity Management EcoSystem (PRIMES) (2015), 231233
Refugee Agency, 228
UN Charter (1945), 117, 187, 242
UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants (2016), 270
UN Sustainable Development Goals, 243
United States (USA), 7. See also state
administration, 278
American Immigration Council, 8
Asylum Eligibility and Procedural Modifications (2019), 65
Attorney General, 46
Biden administration, 7, 31, 35, 65
Border Patrol, 119, 257
Bracero program, 51
Central American Minors program, 37
Circumvention of Legal Pathways, 8
Coast Guard, 45, 33, 254
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), 52
Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), 52
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 233
Diversity Lottery, 46
government, 8, 3738, 118, 247
Great Depression, 119
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), 119
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 72
Immigration Reform and Control Act of (IRCA) (1986), 119
interim final rule (IFR), 65
International Boundary Commission, 118
Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924), 119
Refugee Act (1980), 47
Refugee Admissions Program, 30
“Remain in Mexico” program, 3435, 250
Safe Third Country Agreement (with Canada) (2002), 61
For example, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), 36
Trump administration, 7, 31, 3435, 37, 53, 65, 72, 250
US-VISIT database/Office of Biometric Identity Management, 231
visas (for asylum seekers), 37, 41, 4446, 4952, 5557, 88, 184
universalism, 77
US–Mexico border, 3, 67, 32, 37, 109, 113, 118, 262
utopia, 159, 259
Uyghurs, 211
values, 39, 201, 234, 250, 257, 262. See also humanitarian ideas; humanity; integrity
foundational, 39
Venezuela, 37
Vienna, 113, 117
visa, 34, 37, 41, 4446, 4852, 5558, 65, 7576, 81, 86, 184, 228229. See also United States, visas (for asylum seekers)
humanitarian, 8889, 92
volunteers, 157, 274. See also activists
vulnerability, 22, 40, 7172, 8688, 165, 264
Waldron, Jeremy, 54, 8485, 88, 285. See also proximity
presence-model of politics, 84
wall, the (media image), 109
Walzer, Michael, 16, 29, 45, 8586, 88, 126, 252, 282
wars, fleeing the, 11, 29
Watershed Model, 22, 248, 251, 256263
Westphalia. See border, Westphalian
World Bank, 53, 158, 161, 196198
World War II, 30, 40, 43, 45, 5051, 180, 282
Yemen, 94
Yugoslavia, 215
Zambia, 202

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