Border Extraterritoriality or Cosmopolitan Responsibility? Conceptualizing the Possibility of Asylum Claims in absentia
An emergent issue for critical migration studies concerns the technological and diplomatic capacities of Western nation-states to externalize bordering practices. The extraterritorialization of border enforcement presents a dual problematic for migrants, intellectuals, activists, and civil-society...
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An emergent issue for critical migration studies concerns the technological and diplomatic capacities of Western nation-states to externalize bordering practices. The extraterritorialization of border enforcement presents a dual problematic for migrants, intellectuals, activists, and civil-society members. They must navigate, on one hand, a pressing need to respond to the pre-emptive foreclosure of a “right to presence,” while on the other hand rethinking institutions of asylum to be capable of operating from a distance. In the following, I construct a new manner of thinking about border extraterritorialization in general, and in response, formulate rightful claims to asylum as articulated in absentia. Extraterritorialization practices and their logics are characterized by pro-jection, through which they give rise to a “general domain of ends” predicated on nation-state irresponsibility, outside of law and outside of their territories. I then elaborate upon a notion of cosmopolitanism that characterizes grassroots actions attempting to address these bordering practices, ones that challenge state-centric frameworks of politics. In advancement of this position, I discuss how a relation of responsibility may be constructed from a distance through civil society initiatives (private sponsorship), counter-public networks (exemplified by WatchTheMed), and counter-institutions (the International Parliament of Writers). All these examples represent a form of communicative reach.
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| spelling | doaj-art-18fcb6794a7449ea9d5cc6a4f680f9ed2025-08-20T03:40:33ZengBrock UniversityStudies in Social Justice1911-47882025-08-0119210.26522/ssj.v19i2.4439Border Extraterritoriality or Cosmopolitan Responsibility? Conceptualizing the Possibility of Asylum Claims in absentiaTyler Correia0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8045-4659York University An emergent issue for critical migration studies concerns the technological and diplomatic capacities of Western nation-states to externalize bordering practices. The extraterritorialization of border enforcement presents a dual problematic for migrants, intellectuals, activists, and civil-society members. They must navigate, on one hand, a pressing need to respond to the pre-emptive foreclosure of a “right to presence,” while on the other hand rethinking institutions of asylum to be capable of operating from a distance. In the following, I construct a new manner of thinking about border extraterritorialization in general, and in response, formulate rightful claims to asylum as articulated in absentia. Extraterritorialization practices and their logics are characterized by pro-jection, through which they give rise to a “general domain of ends” predicated on nation-state irresponsibility, outside of law and outside of their territories. I then elaborate upon a notion of cosmopolitanism that characterizes grassroots actions attempting to address these bordering practices, ones that challenge state-centric frameworks of politics. In advancement of this position, I discuss how a relation of responsibility may be constructed from a distance through civil society initiatives (private sponsorship), counter-public networks (exemplified by WatchTheMed), and counter-institutions (the International Parliament of Writers). All these examples represent a form of communicative reach. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/4439border extra-territorializationpro-jectioncosmopolitanismcommunicative reachresponsibilityasylum claims in absentia |
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| title_sort | border extraterritoriality or cosmopolitan responsibility conceptualizing the possibility of asylum claims in absentia |
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