Katz, I. (2019) En route : the mobile border migrant camps of Northern France. In: Pieris, A., (ed.) Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space. Architext . Routledge , Abingdon ISBN 9781138102828
Abstract
This chapter examines the rapidly-evolving spaces of the makeshift and institutional border migrant camps created in Northern France between 2015 and 2017. While camps for forced migrants are often analysed as isolated and isolating spaces of containment which in many cases endure for decades, border migrant camps, as this chapter demonstrates, are often dynamic, hyper-temporary and highly connected spaces which make part of the ever-changing entanglements of intense border practices and migration flows. The geographical areas where these camps are located could be defined as ‘mobile borders’, the active border zones that are constantly altered by the interplay between bordering practices and the tempestuous mobilities which exceed them. Rather than establishing sites where the ‘state of exception’ is 'given a permanent spatial arrangement', these camps create a constantly changing spatial reality and a highly ephemeral constellation of formal and informal spaces which is reconfigured by the border conditions which they make part of.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Routledge (Taylor & Francis). This is an author-produced version of a chapter subsequently published in Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2019 13:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Dec 2020 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://www.routledge.com/Architecture-on-the-Bord... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | Architext |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149473 |