@article{2017:hartmann:contested_,
title = {Contested Boundaries: Refugee Centers as Spaces of the Political},
year = {2017},
note = {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.},
journal = {Z'Flucht. Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung},
pages = {218--243},
author = {Hartmann, Melanie},
volume = {1},
number = {2}
}