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Beyond Citizen Politics

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Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration

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This chapter sums up the theoretical stakes of the book, focusing on the emergence of new spaces of governmentality we looked at. It stressed the importance of going beyond institutional and mapped spaces focusing instead on what we call “incipient spaces” that remain below the threshold of political visibility. The chapter explains how the non-cartographic counter-mapping approach we have developed in the book allows to go beyond “citizen politics” and “methodological citizenship.” Then, it reconceptualises the notion of “struggle” and “migrant struggles” building on the struggles for movement analyzed in the Chap. 2. Finally, building on the notion of “unequal illegality” introduced in Chap. 2, it concludes that in order to adequately analyze how processes of migrantization and precarization are intertwined it is necessary to move beyond juridical categories.

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Garelli, G., Tazzioli, M. (2017). Beyond Citizen Politics. In: Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50587-3_3

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