Security, Surveillance and the New Landscapes of Migration (original) (raw)

Abstract

Chinatown. Little Italy. The French Quarter. Names like these have described migrant neighborhoods for decades in cities across the United States. These are places where generations of migrants found refuge, relationships, and hope as they embarked on new lives in the planet’s self-proclaimed “melting pot.” But today’s migrants are not pursuing such clearly delineated place-based geographies. They are more dispersed and more integrated into the socio-spatial fabric of their host metropolises. In this chapter, I will describe why this dispersed model is more commonplace. To do this, I will first trace the history of traditional socio-spatial strategies. I will then explore how these strategies are changing in an increasingly polarized and securitized melting pot. In the past, migrants lived a diaspora experience and have tried to define themselves by reference to their distant homeland. In effect, they used spatial strategies to help create what Benedict Anderson refers to as “imagin...

Lyndsey N Deaton hasn't uploaded this paper.

Let Lyndsey know you want this paper to be uploaded.

Ask for this paper to be uploaded.