Contested Boundaries: Refugee Centers as Spaces of the Political

Melanie Hartmann

doi:10.5771/2509-9485-2017-2-218

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- 271–272 Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis 271–272
- 173–274 Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze 173–274
  - 173–217 Bildungsteilhabe geflüchteter Kinder und Jugendlicher im regionalen Vergleich. El-Mafaalani, Kemper El-Mafaalani, Kemper 173–217
  - 218–243 Contested Boundaries: Refugee Centers as Spaces of the Political Melanie Hartmann Melanie Hartmann 218–243
  - 244–274 Politische Erziehung durch Medienberichterstattung? Arnd-Michael Nohl Arnd-Michael Nohl 244–274
- 275–334 Forumsbeiträge 275–334
  - 275–297 Asylsuchende aus Afghanistan und die Defizite des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems Bernd Parusel Bernd Parusel 275–297
  - 298–317 Berufliche Qualifizierung Geflüchteter: Führen direkte Anfragen zur Beteiligung von Betrieben? Margit Ebbinghaus Margit Ebbinghaus 298–317
  - 318–326 Authority by Argument – Die Michigan Guidelines zum internationalen Flüchtlingsschutz Nora Markard Nora Markard 318–326
  - 327–334 Die Michigan Guidelines zur Bewegungsfreiheit von Flüchtlingen 327–334
- 335–345 Literaturberichte 335–345
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Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung , page 218 - 243

Contested Boundaries: Refugee Centers as Spaces of the Political

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Melanie Hartmann

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2017-2-218
- ISSN: 2509-9485
- ISSN online: 2942-3597
Abstract

This article examines refugee accommodation centers in Germany as constitutive elements of deterritorialized borders. It is argued that in the refugee experience, borders reveal themselves as ubiquitous rather than as mere separation lines between nation states. Before that backdrop, it is shown that the social production of refugee centers and camps rests on powerful processes of boundary drawings that replicate the b/ordering mechanisms of the nationalist order of our allegedly globalized world. Yet, this paper also employs a reversion of perspectives and exposes that manifold practices by refugees and their supporters challenge or (re-)negotiate these boundaries on various spatial levels. A special focus is put on the dimension of the everyday and everyday spatial practices. Rather than fixed once and for all, refugee centers, and boundaries more generally, are therefore understood as inherently unstable sites of struggles, as spaces of the articulation of the Political.
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