Migration

This chapter examines the political geography of international migration. It does so through the lens of local territorial states, national territorial states, interstate relations, and supranational and global governance. Within this structure, it explores several major themes associated with the work of political geographers and cognate scholars, especially over the last decade. These include, but are not limited to, how urban or localized politics, policies, and practices of the governance of migration (or the politics and practices of migrants themselves) are entangled with other "levels," "territories," or "scales"; "border externalization" processes; and mobilizing decolonial or abolitionist epistemologies (including engaging more with scholars and migrants from the Global South in the theorization of migration) to question a Global North-centered understanding of the governance of migration and/or to subvert the exercise of state power.