Migration, Security, and Resistance

Graham Hudson is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Academic in the Faculty of Law, Ryerson University, Canada.

This volume explores the digitization, privatization, and spatial displacement of border security and the effects this has on political accountability and migrant rights.

Introduction Graham Hudson and Idil Atak Part I: Security and surveillance 1. Refugee system as a bordering site: security, surveillance, and the rights of asylum seekers in Canada Idil Atak, Claire Ellis, and Zainab Abu Alrob 2. European Union information systems for border and migration enforcement: trajectories, programmatics, and uses Julien Jeandesboz 3. Surveillance sovereignty: migration management technologies and the politics of privatization Petra Molnar 4. Privatization of security, border management, and defense in the EU: does reliance on tech companies erode states' sovereignty? Eleftherios Chelioudakis 5. Urban securitization and inland border enforcement Graham Hudson and Sasha Kovalchuk Part II: Rescaling resistance: local and global perspectives 6. Local resistance to outlawing sanctuary in Texas: changing forms of US migratory governance in the protection of undocumented migrants' rights Benjamin Bruce 7. Municipal immigration policing and resistance to internal bordering in Canada David Moffette 8. Urban sanctuary and solidarity: a global challenge to sovereignty and migrant repression? Harald Bauder 9. Border management and technology: a challenge to the right to privacy Elif Mendos Kükonmaz 10. The Marrakesh Compact: a new international framework for state cooperation on national security and migration? Elspeth Guild 11. Migration control and resistance: toward a multiscalar approach Anna Triandafyllidou