Affective Bordering: The Emotional Politics of Migration, Race and Deservingness
By (Author) Billy Holzberg
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
30th October 2024
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Refugees and political asylum
Geopolitics
304.8
Hardback
208
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Affective Bordering is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. Billy Holzberg dives into the intricate interplay between emotions and migration governance, revealing how emotions work to reinforce racial, sexual, and national hierarchies. Examining pivotal events in Germany during the aftermath of the misnamed 'refugee crisis' in Germany, the book traces the construction of different emotions during key events of this period. Challenging the assumption that positive emotions like hope and empathy necessarily work as a counter to negative emotions like anger or fear, Affective Bordering reveals the racial grammars of deservingness that shape border governance today. Bringing together queer feminist theories of affect with postcolonial border and migration studies, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the reproduction and contestation of borders in todays world.
Billy Holzberg is Assistant Professor of Social Justice at Kings College London