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Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence (2023)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2024). Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence. Political Geography, 108, Article 103041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103041

This paper examines the role of partnerships in the governance of UK migration policy, considering how partnerships have been mobilised to navigate tensions between multiple state and non-state actors. The paper focuses on the work of regional strate... Read More about Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence.

Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship (2023)
Journal Article
Roegiers (Mayeux), C., Saharso, S., Tonkens, E., & Darling, J. (2023). Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship. Societies, 13(11), Article 243. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13110243

In The Netherlands, women who experience domestic violence can rely on public policies that aim to support them, such as shelters. Drawing on the lived experiences, through 10 interviews and observations, of women with different cultural backgrounds... Read More about Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship.

Precariousness and the Right to Housing (2022)
Book Chapter
Bolt, G., & Darling, J. (in press). Precariousness and the Right to Housing. In S. Munch, & A. Siede (Eds.), Precarious Housing in Europe: A Critical Guide (11-35). Donatau Press

The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal (2021)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2022). The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal. Political Geography, 94, Article 102560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102560

This paper considers how discretion, understood as both a capacity to make decisions and a form of influence that is often hidden, operates within the accommodation and support of asylum seekers. Combining critical discussions of discretion with acco... Read More about The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal.

The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research (2021)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2021). The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 37(2), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40798

In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of the individual, through drawing from ‘the mass’ the narrative of... Read More about The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research.

Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’ (2020)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2021). Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’. Urban Geography, 42(7), 894-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1763611

This paper explores how asylum might be understood from an urban perspective. The paper focuses on a range of conceptual interventions mobilized around the notion of ‘seeing like a city’, which foreground the pragmatic and compositional nature of urb... Read More about Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’.

Geography and Ethics (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J., & Wilson, H. (in press). Geography and Ethics. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (6-22). SAGE Publications

Expectations (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (in press). Expectations. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (73-81). SAGE Publications

Vulnerable Subjects (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (in press). Vulnerable Subjects. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (159-169). SAGE Publications

Introduction: rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights (2019)
Book Chapter
Darling, J., & Bauder, H. (2019). Introduction: rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights. In J. Darling, & H. Bauder (Eds.), Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights. University of Manchester Press

Sanctuary, presence, and the politics of urbanism. (2019)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (2019). Sanctuary, presence, and the politics of urbanism. In J. Darling, & H. Bauder (Eds.), Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights. Manchester University Press

Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: ‘curating sociability’ for refugees and asylum seekers (2019)
Journal Article
Rishbeth, C., Blachnicka-Ciacek, D., & Darling, J. (2019). Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: ‘curating sociability’ for refugees and asylum seekers. Geoforum, 106, 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.014

This paper examines how asylum seekers and refugees experience urban greenspaces. Whilst often overlooked in a focus on support services and integration, we argue that critically exploring the importance of urban greenspaces has wider implications fo... Read More about Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: ‘curating sociability’ for refugees and asylum seekers.

Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights (2019)
Book
Darling, J., & Bauder, H. (Eds.). (2019). Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights. University of Manchester Press

Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles makes the first sustained intervention into exploring how cities are challenging the primacy of the nation-state as the key guarantor of rights and entitlements. It brings together cutting-edge scholars of politic... Read More about Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights.

The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill (2018)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2018). The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill. Fennia, 196(2), 220-224. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.75756

In this commentary, I take Nick Gill’s discussion of the ‘suppression of welcome’ and the politics of hospitality, as a starting point for reflection on how ‘cultures of welcome’ are produced. In exploring the work of those supporting asylum seekers... Read More about The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill.

Acts, ambiguities, and the labour of contesting citizenship (2017)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2017). Acts, ambiguities, and the labour of contesting citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 21(6), 727-736. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2017.1341658

This afterword discusses a variety of approaches to exploring the contestation of citizenship, and foregrounds the spatial politics that underpin forms of contestation, struggle and claims making. Beginning with a reflection on how recent work has so... Read More about Acts, ambiguities, and the labour of contesting citizenship.

Asylum in Austere Times: Instability, Privatization and Experimentation within the UK Asylum Dispersal System (2016)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2016). Asylum in Austere Times: Instability, Privatization and Experimentation within the UK Asylum Dispersal System. Journal of Refugee Studies, 29(4), 483-505. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/few038

In 2010, the UK government passed contracts for the provision of dispersal accommodation and reception services for asylum seekers to three private providers. This article explores the causes and consequences of this process, arguing that dispersal h... Read More about Asylum in Austere Times: Instability, Privatization and Experimentation within the UK Asylum Dispersal System.

Book review: Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Kotef Hagar, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2015; 248 pp.: 9780822358558, £16.99 (pbk).Szary Anne-Laure Amilhat Giraut Frédéric (eds) Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; 328 pp.: 9781137468840, £65.00 (hbk). (2016)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2016). Book review: Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility, Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Kotef Hagar, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2015; 248 pp.: 9780822358558, £16.99 (pbk).Szary Anne-Laure Amilhat Giraut Frédéric (eds) Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; 328 pp.: 9781137468840, £65.00 (hbk). Progress in Human Geography, 40(5), 708-712. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132515609018

The possibilities of encounter. (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilson, H. F., & Darling, J. (2016). The possibilities of encounter. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (1-24). Routledge

Privatising asylum: neoliberalisation, depoliticisation and the governance of forced migration (2016)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2016). Privatising asylum: neoliberalisation, depoliticisation and the governance of forced migration. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 41(3), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12118

This paper critically examines the political geography of asylum accommodation in the UK, arguing that in the regulation of housing and support services we witness the depoliticisation of asylum. In 2010, the UK Home Office announced that it would be... Read More about Privatising asylum: neoliberalisation, depoliticisation and the governance of forced migration.

Forced migration and the city: irregularity, informality, and the politics of presence (2016)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2016). Forced migration and the city: irregularity, informality, and the politics of presence. Progress in Human Geography, 41(2), 178-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516629004

This paper explores the relationship between forced migration and the city. The paper outlines four accounts of the city centred on: displacement and the camp-city, dispersal and refugee resettlement, the ‘re-scaling’ of borders, and the city as a sa... Read More about Forced migration and the city: irregularity, informality, and the politics of presence.

Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’ (2014)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6(2), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huu011

Entering ‘the field’ can be a daunting, demanding and at times bewildering experience, with researchers negotiating a myriad of assumptions, expectations and motivations. Whilst early career researchers and doctoral students may be trained in theorie... Read More about Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’.

Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum (2014)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(3), 484-500. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13067p

In an era of technologically mediated modes of border enforcement, this paper focuses upon a seemingly more anachronistic mode of governmental intervention: That of the letter. Exploring the use of letters by the UK Border Agency to communicate decis... Read More about Another Letter from the Home Office: Reading the Material Politics of Asylum.

Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(1), 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12026

This paper explores the ways in which practices of asylum governance serve to depoliticise those seeking asylum in the UK. In critiquing claims over the “post‐political” nature of contemporary governance, the paper proposes a focus upon situated prac... Read More about Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship.

Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2013). Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique. Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1785-1801. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45441

The city of Sheffield was the UK's first ‘City of Sanctuary’, an identification which suggested that the city would act to welcome asylum seekers and refugees through promoting a ‘culture of hospitality’. In this paper I seek to interrogate such clai... Read More about Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique.

‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? challenging myths about race and migration by N. Finney and L. Simpson. Policy Press, Bristol, 2009. No. of pages: x + 218, ISBN 978 1 84742 007 7 (paperback), 978 1 84742 008 4 (hardback) (2009)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2009). ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? challenging myths about race and migration by N. Finney and L. Simpson. Policy Press, Bristol, 2009. No. of pages: x + 218, ISBN 978 1 84742 007 7 (paperback), 978 1 84742 008 4 (hardback). Population, Space and Place, 15(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.571

Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment (2009)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2009). Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(4), 649-665. https://doi.org/10.1068/d10307

This paper examines the politics of contemporary encampment within the UK with reference to the positioning of asylum seekers as a group subjected to a biopolitical logic of ‘compassionate repression’. The paper opens by examining the utility of pres... Read More about Becoming Bare Life: Asylum, Hospitality, and the Politics of Encampment.