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Dr THOM DAVIES's Outputs (3)

The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2024). The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border. Geopolitics, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2339894

Borders are sites of mass injury. This article questions the necro-consensus that has emerged within migration studies, and explores the political role that less-than-deadly violence plays at contemporary borders. By withholding from outright killing... Read More about The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border.

‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel (2024)
Journal Article
Mayblin, L., Turner, J., Davies, T., Yemane, T., & Isakjee, A. (2024). ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2024.2349691

This article focuses on the advancement of fantasy policy solutions to irregular migration, drawing on the case study of the UK/French border. In 2018 people began to cross the English Channel in significant numbers to seek asylum. This led to much c... Read More about ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel.

Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Yemane, T. H., Turner, J., Mayblin, L., & Isakjee, A. (2024). Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241264415

This article examines the eco-coloniality of the UK–France border by tracing the transformation of the notorious Calais “jungle” refugee camp into a nature reserve. We empirically investigate the ecological politics of the Calais borderzone, arguing... Read More about Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border.