Dr Lauren Martin's Outputs (2)

Making labour mobile: Borders, precarity, and the competitive state in Finnish migration politics (2017)
Journal Article
Martin, L., & Prokkola, E. (2017). Making labour mobile: Borders, precarity, and the competitive state in Finnish migration politics. Political Geography, 60, 143-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.07.009

This article explores how the multiplication of labour migration categories relies upon strategic territorialisations of borders to differentiate between workers' nationalities, worksites, and skills in Finland. We argue that for certain categories o... Read More about Making labour mobile: Borders, precarity, and the competitive state in Finnish migration politics.

Polymorphic Borders (2017)
Journal Article
Burridge, A., Gill, N., Kocher, A., & Martin, L. (2017). Polymorphic Borders. Territory, Politics, Governance, 5(3), 239-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2017.1297253

Polymorphic borders. Territory, Politics, Governance. Conceptualizing the respatialization, rescaling and mobilization of border work is a central problem in current borders research. Traditional and ubiquitous border concepts imply a coherent state... Read More about Polymorphic Borders.