The article, co-authored by Michaela Benson and Nando Sigona, is to appear in the 60th anniversary special issue of International Migration Review. It examines the emergence of a new immigration regime in the United Kingdom, following its exit from the European Union, to uncover the entanglements and intersections of biopolitics, geopolitics and ideology in migration and migration governance. The analysis draws a clear line between Brexit as a political and geopolitical rupture, the ideological project of “Global Britain” that emerged from it, and the forms of migrant and citizen subjectivity that these paired projects produced as the body politic was re-modelled in this image.
The authors argue that understanding the re-orientation of migration flows and reforms to the migration-asylum regime in post-Brexit Britain requires close attention to the specific political and geopolitical conjuncture produced by the Brexit referendum, and the process of political reimagination and geopolitical realignment that followed.
Benson, M., & Sigona, N. (2024). Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering: Intersections of the Biopolitical and Geopolitical in the UK’s Post-Brexit Migration Regime (and Why It Matters for Migration Research). International Migration Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241275457
