Re-Cording LivesPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.14361/9783839453490-006
Ephraim Pörtner
{"title":"2. An Analytic of Governing Asylum","authors":"Ephraim Pörtner","doi":"10.14361/9783839453490-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453490-006","url":null,"abstract":"Migration as well as asylum governance is crucially about affecting people’s (im)mobility directly or indirectly. But what does this mean? Mobility studies provide vital answers to this question. The emergence of the burgeoning field of mobility studies has involved a turn from “sedentarist metaphysics” (Malkki 1995, 227; 1992) to a mobile ontology (see Adey 2006; Amilhat-Szary 2015, 22). The latter implies that everything is mobile, yet some things and people are relatively immobile – because of the different speed of movement, transformation and re-composition of things (ibid.). Consequently, a mobile ontology urges us to analyse the “relational politics of (im)mobilities” (ibid., 90–91; see also Cresswell 2010), i.e., “exploring how different people are placed in different ways to mobility, and thus different ways to power” (Adey 2006, 276). Cresswell (2006), for instance, highlighted that law and legal practice are crucially implicated in producing mobilities:","PeriodicalId":218861,"journal":{"name":"Re-Cording Lives","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121319073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Re-Cording LivesPub Date : 2021-07-27DOI: 10.14361/9783839453490-007
Ephraim Pörtner
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