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How can we better understand fundamental change in state territoriality and migration control? Answering this question requires a dynamic understanding of political space and geopolitical decision-making. Unfortunately, we have often treated political space as if it were natural and unchangeable: a brute fact which rulers and political institutions simply have to accept. Space has been the stage on which politics plays out, but rarely does it feature as an integral part of the stories we tell about politics itself, its nature and evolution.1 In order to develop a more nuanced and critical understanding of the politics of human mobility, this chapter will seek to refine the theoretical vocabulary we use to to describe the relationships between ‘territoriality’, ‘migration’ and ‘space’.
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Vigneswaran, D. (2013). Migration and Mental Maps. In: Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391291_2
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