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Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation (2023)
Journal Article
Martin, L. L., & Tazzioli, M. (2023). Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(2), 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231157397

In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programm... Read More about Value extraction through refugee carcerality: Data, labour and financialised accommodation.

Documenting Detention: The Politics of Archiving Immigration Enforcement Records in the United States’ National Archives and Records Administration (2022)
Journal Article
Hughes, S. M., & Martin, L. L. (2022). Documenting Detention: The Politics of Archiving Immigration Enforcement Records in the United States’ National Archives and Records Administration. Professional Geographer, 74(3), 415-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2022.2037439

On 14 July 2017, the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced that it would shorten the time period for holding 11 kinds of noncitizen detainee records and invited public comment on these changes. NARA stated that the decision... Read More about Documenting Detention: The Politics of Archiving Immigration Enforcement Records in the United States’ National Archives and Records Administration.

Carceral Economies of Migration Control (2020)
Journal Article
Martin, L. L. (2021). Carceral Economies of Migration Control. Progress in Human Geography, 45(4), 740-757. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520940006

This article conceptualises carceral economies of migration control. First, I argue that “privatization” signals a reorganization of authority, rather than a relocation of ownership from public to private domains. Second, I argue for greater attentio... Read More about Carceral Economies of Migration Control.

Finance, technology & displacement: towards a research agenda. (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Martin, L., & Harker, C. (in press). Finance, technology & displacement: towards a research agenda

This paper asks how people finance life when displaced, as a precursor to building pathways to more inclusive and sustainable prosperity on the move. The approach taken seeks to examine both lived experiences of displacement and the actors, instituti... Read More about Finance, technology & displacement: towards a research agenda..

Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control (2020)
Journal Article
Coddington, K., Conlon, D., & Martin, L. (2020). Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(5), 1425-1444. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1715196

In this article, we argue that destitution economies of migration control are specific circuits of exchange and value constituted by migration control practices that produce migrant and refugee destitution. Comparative analysis of three case studies,... Read More about Destitution Economies: Circuits of Value in Asylum, Refugee, And Migration Control.

Reading Matt Hannah's Direction and socio-spatial theory: A political economy of oriented practice, Routledge, London (2019), 218 pp.; £ 105.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781138061040 (2020)
Journal Article
Rose, M., Minca, C., Joronen, M., Martin, L., Philo, C., & Hannah, M. (2020). Reading Matt Hannah's Direction and socio-spatial theory: A political economy of oriented practice, Routledge, London (2019), 218 pp.; £ 105.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 9781138061040. Political Geography, 77, Article 102056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102056

The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research (2019)
Book Chapter
Belcher, O., & Martin, L. (2019). The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research. In M. de Goede, E. Bosma, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), Secrecy and methods in critical security research (33-47). Routledge

This chapter addresses in relation to secrecy and methods is how to examine these “postsecret” places by using a wide range of data sources, some of which may be considered unorthodox by traditional social scientific standards. It offers some guideli... Read More about The Problem of Access: Site Visits, Selective Disclosure, and Freedom of Information in Qualitative Security Research.

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.

Afterword: spatialities of transnational lived citizenship (2016)
Journal Article
Martin, L., & Paasi, A. (2016). Afterword: spatialities of transnational lived citizenship. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 16(3), 344-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12116

The articles collected here show how the terms transnational, everyday lives and citizenship inflect each other in different ways, depending on the site and context in question. In this afterword, we want to explore how these three terms change each... Read More about Afterword: spatialities of transnational lived citizenship.

Security (2015)
Book Chapter
Martin, L. (2015). Security. In J. Agnew, V. Mamadouh, A. Secor, & J. Sharp (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography (100-113). Wiley

Noncitizen Detention : Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US Immigration and Border Control (2015)
Journal Article
Martin, L. (2015). Noncitizen Detention : Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US Immigration and Border Control. Annales de géographie, 702-703(2/3), 231-247. https://doi.org/10.3917/ag.702.0231

The United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates the largest confinement system in the country, no small accomplishment in the world’s largest prison system. This article analyzes the US immigration detention system as a... Read More about Noncitizen Detention : Spatial Strategies of Migrant Precarity in US Immigration and Border Control.

Towards a post-mathematical topology (2013)
Journal Article
Martin, L., & Secor, A. J. (2014). Towards a post-mathematical topology. Progress in Human Geography, 38(3), 420-438. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513508209

This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology bo... Read More about Towards a post-mathematical topology.