11 Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures and Tables v
4. Notes on Authors vi
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Introduction: Rethinking Migration – Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race 1
7. Multiple Mobilities
8. Introduction 23
9. Mobile People and Places in Premodern Europe 27
10. The Early Voyages of the East India Company, 1601–17: A Non-Human and Unheroic History 47
11. Cows on the Move: The Im(Material) Politics of Animal Passports and the Risk of Antimicrobial Resistance 65
12. Productive Borders
13. Introduction 91
14. Migrants and Borders in the Medieval English World 94
15. The Aliens Order 1920, the ‘Work Permit’ and the Making of the National Labour Market 112
16. The Production and Negotiation of the ‘Good’ and the ‘Bad’ Migrant 130
17. Transformative Representations
18. Introduction 151
19. Why Can’t Chinese Citizens Go Home? Spoiled Citizenship and Stigmatized Returns in Pandemic Times 156
20. The Family Idyll, Exclusion and Ideology in Persepolis 175
21. Sounds across Borders and the Ukraine War 194
22. Beyond Migrants and Migration
23. Introduction 213
24. Constructing Illegality: Epistemic Borderwork in the Speeches of UK Political Elites 218
25. Communities of Resistance: Migrant Organizing and Transnational Campaigning Past and Future 240
26. Index 252