Outputs (31)

Marx, the Chief, the Prisoner and the Refugee (2021)
Book Chapter
Capps, G., LeBaron, G., Novak, P., & [in conversation with] Mezzadri, A. (2021). Marx, the Chief, the Prisoner and the Refugee. In A. Mezzadri (Ed.), Marx in the Field (203-218). Anthem Press

Deservingness and uneven geographies of asylum accommodation (2021)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2021). Deservingness and uneven geographies of asylum accommodation. Social Policy and Society, 20(3), 452-463. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746420000779

The arrival of over six million asylum seekers in Europe since 2011 has engendered profound and ongoing governance transformations, which this article examines through the understudied perspective of asylum seekers’ accommodation. The article uncover... Read More about Deservingness and uneven geographies of asylum accommodation.

The neoliberal location of asylum (2019)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2019). The neoliberal location of asylum. Political Geography, 70, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.01.007

What can be learned about the European migration crisis by studying it at its margins? Framed by this question and premised on evidence collected during four months of field research in a central Italian province, the paper investigates the governanc... Read More about The neoliberal location of asylum.

Borders, distance, politics (2018)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2018). Borders, distance, politics. In A. Paasi, E.-K. Prokkola, J. Saarinen, & K. Zimmerbauer (Eds.), Borderless Worlds for Whom?: Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities (49-62). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429427817-4

The ‘borderless world’ narrative was, perhaps, nothing more than that: a narrative associated with a specific, and specifically neoliberal, project – that of globalization in the 1990s. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, the idea that state borders... Read More about Borders, distance, politics.

Borders as Meeting Points : Neoliberalism, Securitisation and Migrants' Autonomy in the Port/Border area of Patras (2018)
Thesis
Mogiani, M. Borders as Meeting Points : Neoliberalism, Securitisation and Migrants' Autonomy in the Port/Border area of Patras. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

The resurgence in border studies over the last 20 years has generated a passionate and animated debate among scholars attempting to conceptualise how borders originate, where they are located, and what their implications are for the mobilities crossi... Read More about Borders as Meeting Points : Neoliberalism, Securitisation and Migrants' Autonomy in the Port/Border area of Patras.

Border rhythms (2017)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2017). Border rhythms. In E. Mavroudi, B. Page, & A. Christou (Eds.), Timespace and International Migration (61-76). Edward Elgar

Back to Borders (2016)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2017). Back to Borders. Critical Sociology, 43(6), 847-864. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920516644034

What is a border? Who is a migrant? The paper uses these questions to distinguish between constructivist, Marxist and postcolonial answers provided by critical border scholarship, with three aims. First, identifying common concerns and interrogating... Read More about Back to Borders.

Placing Borders in Development (2016)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2016). Placing Borders in Development. Geopolitics, 21(3), 483-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2015.1118378

Development is inextricably related to the state-centred cartography of world spaces defined by borders, both in its historical trajectory and contemporary entanglements. Yet the multiplicity of channels and directions characterising their articulati... Read More about Placing Borders in Development.

Refugee status as a productive tension (2015)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2015). Refugee status as a productive tension. Transnational Legal Theory, 6(2), 287-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1086198

Who is an Afghan refugee in Pakistan? The paper delves into this question through a detailed discussion of the concrete mechanisms that contextually define who an Afghan refugee in Pakistan is. Drawing on an understanding of law as generatively irres... Read More about Refugee status as a productive tension.

Refugees and Empire (2015)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2015). Refugees and Empire. In I. Ness, & Z. Cope (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_265-1