Arshad Isakjee’s research while affiliated with University of Liverpool and other places

... In parallel with externalization policies, some governments and political parties in the European Union and the United Kingdom have engaged in public discourses that legitimize inaction or the withdrawal of sea rescues as a policy of deterrence, arguing that, if migrants were aware of the difficulty and danger of the journey, they would not set out to cross the sea. In the case of the UK, Mayblin et al. (2024) argue that the dominant humanitarian discourses around border policy are framed within either an illiberal discourse that criminalizes and dehumanizes boat crossings, or a technocratic liberal discourse that emphasizes the need for greater efficiency in border control and is based on legitimizing the current status quo and denying racism and contemporary capitalist imperialism. This paper presents data and an analysis of the approaches that underpin the increase in deaths along the Spanish southern border from 2017 to the present, and the way in which these approaches are embedded in transnational dynamics of externalization and militarization that not only hinder maritime rescue and put the lives of those trying to reach Europe at greater risk but which are also underpinned by a necropolitical framework of impeding the passage of people from the global South, in an escalation of securitization and borderization that leaves an increasing death toll in its wake. ...

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Necropolitics at the Southern European Border: Deaths and Missing Migrants on the Western Mediterranean and Atlantic Coasts

... Despite their ubiquity, informal migrant settlements in Europe have not received much attention in camp and mobility studies and have mostly been implicitly considered (Aris Escarcena, 2018;Aru, 2021;Dembour & Martin, 2011;Fontanari, 2019;Martin et al., 2020;Menghi, 2018;Minca, 2015;Picozza, 2017;Queirolo Palmas, 2017;Tazzioli & Garelli, 2018;Tazzioli, 2018b). The existing research focusing on informality has highlighted the living conditions or the lack of shelter, but without exploring the temporal dimensions associated with the phenomenon (Alarcon et al., 2016;Benedikt, 2019Benedikt, , 2020Davies & Isakjee, 2015;Davies et al., 2019;Mendola & Busetta, 2018;Pasquetti & Picker, 2017;Sanyal, 2017). ...

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Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders

... Scholars from the field of public administration and human geography have studied the development of immaterial cultural environments. To investigate governance and economic management strategies related to CCDs, researchers have focused on the social dimension (e.g., Andres & Golubchikov, 2016;Jones & Perry, 2019;Joubert, 2004;Kong, 2009;Lindner & Meissner, 2015;Tang, 2016). However, the impact of the built environment characteristics of CCDs on human perception and experience should not be ignored . ...

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Urban design strategies fostering creative workers' sense of identity in creative and cultural districts in East Asia: An integrated knowledge-driven approach

... An area of particular concern that poses a substantial threat that may apply to large numbers of individuals relates to European border regimes, which have become increasingly dehumanising in recent years and failed to respect human rights in their treatment of those seeking refuge and asylum. [148][149][150] The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has highlighted four areas for urgent action to end the human rights violations taking place at Europe's borders and that relate to pushbacks involving the summary return of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants by states without the observance of the necessary human rights safeguards. These areas involve the need for member states to re-focus on the implementation, in good faith, of their human rights obligations, in particular those set out in the European Convention on Human Rights; to enhance transparency of border control activities, in particular through strengthening independent monitoring to prevent and identify violations, as well as bolstering mechanisms to ensure accountability when such violations occur; and to acknowledge pushbacks as a pan-European problem requiring collective action by all member states; and for parliamentarians to mobilise to stand up against pushbacks, including by holding their governments to account and by preventing the adoption of laws or policies that are not human rights compliant. ...

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Digital solutions for migrant and refugee health: a framework for analysis and action

... This is exemplified in the UK governments post-Brexit immigration regimes and the treatment of people crossing the English Channel to claim asylum, where the majority of people claiming asylum are from countries which have been exposed to colonial, warfare and imperial interventions. 3 As with other examples of migration 'hotspots' across Europe, a complex array of border infrastructure, surveillance and policing actively forces people to make increasingly perilous journeys across the English Channel (Tyerman 2022), just as these border practices I argue, are naturalised and justified by dominant conceptions of racialised intimacy. The increasing numbers of people crossing the Channel have become a spectacle for the right wing and pro-Brexit British press and UK Home Office (see Davies et al. 2021). Alongside the Islamophobic construction of 'terrorism', those crossing the Channel are frequently depicted as a racialised and sexualised threat, a drain on the UK welfare state and an 'invasion'. ...

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Borders, Intimacy and Colonial Dispossession

... This approach is consistent with what Carpentier (2011) has called the "ideological" model of war-a modality in which a country takes action by placing itself in direct binary opposition to the enemy, with little space for nuance. This geopolitical discourse has been coupled with a strong identification with Western civilisation, which postcolonial scholars have understood as emerging only in contrast to an uncivilised, racialised Other-individuals or groups that, in Western imaginary, represent cultures and peoples outside the Western world, particularly those from the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa (Isakjee et al. 2020;Said 1978). In a press conference on 31 March 2022, following a bilateral meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen regarding their support for Ukraine, Lithuania's Prime Minister Ingrida ...

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Departheid in the Post‐Soviet Space? The Shifting Geopolitics and Racialisation of Migration Governance in Lithuania

... When Muslims and people from other cultures purchase Halal food, their quality of life rises [99]. The quantity of geographical studies in the literature examining food/animal ethics that highlight the expanding importance of the Halal food business is rising [104]. In Malaysia, Muslim consumers commonly express reservations about the concept of a Halal food supply chain [110]. ...

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Effective Microorganisms as Halal-Based Sources for Biofertilizer Production and Some Socio-Economic Insights: A Review

... One specific aspect of this problem is how to prevent or intervene in young people becoming radicalized into terrorist groups, particularly among populations most at-risk. While many programs come from a criminal justice framework, focused on surveillance, prosecution, and criminal punishment (Bhui et al., 2012;Weine et al., 2017), these are likely insufficient and can be counterproductive as they can make those most at risk of radicalization feel more isolated and disconnected from their surrounding community (Allen et al., 2019;Bhui et al., 2012). This is particularly problematic since feelings of alienation and perceived discrimination have been identified as risk factors for susceptibility to radicalization (Harpviken, 2019). ...

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A Perpetrator by Any Other Name: Unpacking the Characterizations and Consequences of the “Terrorist,” “Lone Wolf,” and “Mass Shooter” Labels for Perpetrators of Mass Violence

... The first posited that the leave vote was driven by a 'left-behind Britain', largely located in former industrial and coastal towns, who had become dissociated with a globalising world (Eatwell and Goodwin, 2018, Ford and Goodwin, 2017, Goodwin, 2017. The second challenged this view, instead arguing that such conceptions of a 'left-behind Britain' were a spatial imaginary riddled with tensions (Sykes, 2018, Burrell et al., 2018 and that whilst there was a geographical intensity of 'leave' sentiment (Dorling, 2016, Dorling andTomlinson, 2019) it was perhaps an oversimplification to paint 'Brexit' in such a binary cities vs towns narrative (Nurse and Sykes, 2019, Nurse and Sykes, 2020, Creagh et al., 2019. Ultimately, however, these conceptualisations of a 'left-behind Britain' began to take hold in the popular narrative and in the 2019 General Election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson consolidated his power on a 'get Brexit done' platform which targeted those places and the residual 'leave' sentiment therein. ...

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Levelling Up and The Privileging of sub-national governance in England in the inter-Brexit space

... . Others have cast light on the necropolitical conditions of abandonment inside the camps and their debilitating effects upon the thousands of people incarcerated within them (Iliadou, 2023;Pallister-Wilkins, 2022) -spaces that crystalise Europe's increasingly hostile politics of mobility control (Davies and Isakjee, 2019). Made up of camps and detention facilities on the islands of Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos, the Aegean archipelago, however, constitutes not only a spectacle of cruelty and one of the main sites of governmental experimentation in the deployment of carceral technologies. ...

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Grains of dust in the Aegean archipelago: Unruly migrants and everyday resistance in EU hotspots