​Dear colleagues,

We follow the avalanche and invite you to submit a paper to our EASA 2024 In-Person panel [P103]: Doing and Undoing Urban Bordering: De-marcations, Territorialisations, and Resistance, associated with the networks Anthrostate, Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network (ARE), and UrbAn.
[EASA2024: 23-26 July in Barcelona](https://sendy.nomadit.co.uk/l/Xdqq7630VvTuIbpHvRkblzZw/yLrzbMtk4CNi5KS7VlFEeA/d6jHRwf4fGKOXi1j0U3n7w)

Please submit your paper online at [https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2024/paper-form/14612](https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2024/paper-form/14612) by 23:59 CET, January 22nd 2024.

Short Abstract:
In this panel, we explore urban bordering and the capacity to produce spaces of mobility and immobility, deterritorialisation and re-territorialisation, identification and criminalization, as well as the use of borders and boundaries to resist the dominant mobility and spatial regimes.

Long Abstract:
European liberal democracies are truly at a turning point. At a time when human mobility is ever-increasing many European countries still struggle with fully accepting migrants and other minorities. In this context, EU member states are introducing social policies and laws that police and reinforce social boundaries under the guise of maximising security, thereby undermining the idea of liberal democracy. Indeed, these social, political, and legal practices comprised in what social scientists have labelled bordering – i.e., measures taken to attain social order and gain legitimacy by demarcating categories of people to incorporate some and exclude others – form a worrying pattern with far-reaching consequences. Nonetheless, it remains understudied how this bordering works in and through urban space.
Consequently, this panel aims to explore the diversity of urban bordering in its capacity to produce spaces of mobility and immobility, of deterritorialisation and re-territorialisation, of identification and criminalization, as well as the ways in which people use borders and boundaries to resist, modify, mitigate or even dismantle the dominant mobility and spatial regimes. From the control, surveillance, and punishment of informal street economy practices and their relation to “citizen security”, to the campaigns of zero-tolerance, civility, or community embellishing policies, or residential segregation, gentrification, or forced social mix, this panel aims to bring together researchers who wish to share their research on the conditioning factors of mobility in the city, institutional violence anchored in the territory and, in general, how bordering is understood, narrated, monitored and managed in relation to urban space.

Convenors:
Martin Lundsteen (University of Barcelona)
Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven)

Discussant:
Daniel Monterescu (Central European University)

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best,
Martin Lundsteen

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