Contemporary boat migration : data, geopolitics, and discourses

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Contemporary boat migration : data, geopolitics, and discourses

Title remainder

data, geopolitics, and discourses

Statement of responsibility

edited by Elaine Burroughs and Kira Williams

Contributor

• Burroughs, Elaine
• Williams, Kira, 1990-

Editor

• Burroughs, Elaine
• Williams, Kira, 1990-

Subject

• 86.58 aliens law
• Boat people -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Emigration and immigration law
• Emigration and immigration law
• Illegal aliens
• Illegal aliens
• Ocean travel
• Ocean travel
• Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc
• Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc

Language

eng

Summary

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses. While the migration of people by boat is a long-standing phenomenon, journeys have become more frequent and precarious as states illegalise entry. As migration at sea becomes more common, it has gained attention from a range of actors, including enforcement authorities, political elites, media, and non/inter-governmental organizations. The sea has thus become a space of hope/desperation for migrants as well as conflict over territory and sovereignty, representing wider social debates in and beyond Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States. Current literature on migration by boat reflects these debates, primarily concentrating on the humanitarian and legal realities of migration by boat and border enforcement at sea , however, few studies have analysed their empirical relationship. This edited volume aims to fill this gap and thereby address three important, overlapping aspects of these debates: The first theme will explore data and methods on migration by boat, its discourse, and its enforcement, and in addition identifying appropriate research methodologies and sources to gather these data. The second theme will build upon the first by focusing on the relationship between data on migration by boat and governance and geopolitics of the 2border3. Building upon the two themes already outlined, the third theme will identify and analyse how elite discourses represent migration at sea

Member of

• Challenging migration studies

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DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Challenging migration studies