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1 Reconceptualising borders and boundaries

Gender, movement, reproduction, regulation
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Abstract

In this chapter we provide an in-depth discussion of the main concepts and ideas on which the book is based. We start out with an outline of the historical background, where we look at movements and critical events in European and world history which led to change in both geo-political and ideological/conceptual borders. We move on to a conceptual discussion of borders and border regimes where among other themes we discuss how borders can be both hard militarised places and porous grey spaces, and both physical and imagined sites. This develops into an examination of ways that borders as territorial frontiers and boundaries as internal categorisations are closely aligned, and how these structural and ideological parallels operate in tandem both for those who cross borders and also for citizens within those borders. We explore these parallels in relation to regimes of intimate care, concepts of moral economy, entitlement and ‘deserving-ness’, and processes of reproduction of both persons and domains.

Abstract

In this chapter we provide an in-depth discussion of the main concepts and ideas on which the book is based. We start out with an outline of the historical background, where we look at movements and critical events in European and world history which led to change in both geo-political and ideological/conceptual borders. We move on to a conceptual discussion of borders and border regimes where among other themes we discuss how borders can be both hard militarised places and porous grey spaces, and both physical and imagined sites. This develops into an examination of ways that borders as territorial frontiers and boundaries as internal categorisations are closely aligned, and how these structural and ideological parallels operate in tandem both for those who cross borders and also for citizens within those borders. We explore these parallels in relation to regimes of intimate care, concepts of moral economy, entitlement and ‘deserving-ness’, and processes of reproduction of both persons and domains.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiv
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 Reconceptualising borders and boundaries 7
  8. Part I: Gendered life worlds: migrants’ imaginaries and obligations in contested contexts of intimacy
  9. 2 Moral economies of intimacy 33
  10. 3 Borders within intimate realms 51
  11. 4 The gender of guilt 70
  12. 5 Celebrating invisibility 86
  13. Part II: Gender, entitlement, and obligation: migrants interacting with the state and voluntary services
  14. 6 Migrating bodies in the context of health and racialisation in Germany 105
  15. 7 Joint struggles for care and social reproduction in Spain 123
  16. 8 Migration, gender dynamics, and social reproduction 141
  17. 9 Reproductive rights in migration 158
  18. Part III: Shifting gendered policies: reproduction and care in national and historical perspectives
  19. 10 Children of the state? 181
  20. 11 Absorbing care through precarious labour 199
  21. 12 ‘The Handbook of Masturbation and Defloration’ 218
  22. Index 235
Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
This chapter is in the book Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526150226.00007

Chapters in this book

  1. Front matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. List of contributors ix
  5. Acknowledgements xiv
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1 Reconceptualising borders and boundaries 7
  8. Part I: Gendered life worlds: migrants’ imaginaries and obligations in contested contexts of intimacy
  9. 2 Moral economies of intimacy 33
  10. 3 Borders within intimate realms 51
  11. 4 The gender of guilt 70
  12. 5 Celebrating invisibility 86
  13. Part II: Gender, entitlement, and obligation: migrants interacting with the state and voluntary services
  14. 6 Migrating bodies in the context of health and racialisation in Germany 105
  15. 7 Joint struggles for care and social reproduction in Spain 123
  16. 8 Migration, gender dynamics, and social reproduction 141
  17. 9 Reproductive rights in migration 158
  18. Part III: Shifting gendered policies: reproduction and care in national and historical perspectives
  19. 10 Children of the state? 181
  20. 11 Absorbing care through precarious labour 199
  21. 12 ‘The Handbook of Masturbation and Defloration’ 218
  22. Index 235
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