Reading list

A bordered world

En värld av gränser

Course
GS2242
Second cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
Autumn semester 2026 (2026-08-31)
Decision date
2026-06-29

Book chapters

Aizeki, Mizue; Mamoudi, Matt; Schupfer, Coline; and Benjamin, Ruha. (2024). Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence. La Vergne: Haymarket Books. Chapters: Introduction, 19, 26, and 35

Balibar, Étienne (2011) Politics and the other scene. London, Brooklyn, New York: verso. Chapter 4 “what is a border?

Eule, Tobias G.; Borrelli, Lisa Marie; Lindberg, Annikac; Wyss, Anna. (2019). Migrants Before the Law—Contested Migration Control in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. - chapter 4 Illegibility in the Migration Regime https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319987484

Nyberg-Sørensen, Nina. and Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas. (2013) ‘Conceptualizing the Migration Industry’, in Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas, and Nyberg-Sørensen, Nina (eds) (2013) The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. London: Routledge.

Articles

Amoore, Louise and Hall, Alexandra (2010) Border theatre: On the arts of security and resistance. Cultural geographies 17(3): 299–319.

Bigo, Didier (2002) Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 27(1_suppl): 63–92.

Franck, Anja. K.; Brandström Arellano, Emanuelle.; Anderson, Joseph Trawicki. (2018). Navigating Migrant Trajectories through Private Actors: Burmese Labour Migration to Malaysia. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 17(1), 55-82. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01701003

Franck, Anja. K., & Vigneswaran, Darshan (2023). Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability. Security Dialogue, 54(6), 568-585.

Gkliati, Mariana (2023). Let’s Call It what It Is: Hybrid Threats and Instrumentalisation as the Evolution of Securitisation in Migration Management. European Papers-A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023(2), 561-578.

Gkliati, Mariana (2023). Let’s Call It what It Is: Hybrid Threats and Instrumentalisation as the Evolution of Securitisation in Migration Management. European Papers-A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023(2), 561-578.

Khosravi, Shahram. (2019). What do we see if we look at the border from the other side? Social Anthropologyhttps://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/doi/full/10.1111/1469-8676.12685

Krivonos, Daria (2023). Racial capitalism and the production of difference in Helsinki and Warsaw. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(6), 1500–1516. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2154911

Mongia, Radhika Viyas (1999). Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport. Public Culture, 11(3), 527–555. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-3-527

Mulinari, Paula (2024). Temporal Racism and the Invisibilization of Work: or Why Some Can Eat Ice Cream with their Kids While Others Cannot. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 15(1): 3, pp. 1–15. DOI: https://doi. Org/10.33134/njmr.631

Nyman, Jonna (2021) The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect. International Political Sociology 8(4): 1–24.

Parker, Noel and Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2012) Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand' Agenda. Geopolitics 17(4): 727–733.

Rosher, Ben (2026) Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes. Political Geography 127(2): 103516.

Rosher, Ben (2026) In the Shadow of the Damoclesian Border. Global Studies Quarterly 6(2): 102547.