William Walters’s research while affiliated with Carleton University and other places

... Ha llegado a hablarse de una "Escuela británica de gubernamentalidad", que contó con la revista Economy and Society (de la cual Rose fue redactor jefe) como publicación de referencia. Ahora bien, en una entrevista reciente junto a Wendy Brown y Partha Chatterje, Rose se mostró muy crítico con que la gubernamentalidad se convirtiera en una teoría general que ofreciese una explicación homogénea a todo tipo de fenómenos bajo un mismo patrón explicativo (Brown et al., 2023). Frente a aquellos trabajos que apelan al neoliberalismo como causa y efecto de nuevas realidades, Rose declaraba su preferencia por aquellos enfoques más empíricos que estimulan la creatividad conceptual. ...

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Políticas de la subjetividad: las técnicas de sí en el mundo contemporáneo

... For example, the question of whether humanitarianism's boundaries are determined by helping people who are strangers or can include people with close geographical, kinship or ethno-national ties has long been debated (Laqua, 2014;Olliff, 2018). These considerations have been identified in conversations around the concepts of 'solidarity' (De Genova and Tazzioli et al., 2022), 'justice' (Tazzioli and Walters, 2019) and 'humanitarianism' itself (Edkins, 2003). ...

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Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism

... Ever since the 1985 Schengen Agreement, the free movement of people within Europe proved difficult to conciliate with the control of migration from outside the EU. This led to an ongoing fortification process at Europe's external borders, from wall-building and barbed wired fences to digital surveillance, the privatization of migrant control, and deportations (Pedersen, 2013;Walters et al., 2022). These concerns also structure the cooperation of the EU with third countries, which is largely organized around the diffusion of its border control objectives and the prevention of migration (Helton & Lavenex, 2000;Jaulin et al., 2020). ...

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Migration as Crisis

... Infrastructures thus enable, impede and prevent migration and help to anchor these effects in time and space. Moreover, special sets of infrastructures (or infrastructural appropriations of, for example, airports) are emerging across the globe to orchestrate practices of deportation and return (Walters, 2018;Lecadet and Walters, 2021). In turn, migration also generates specific migration-related infrastructures, such as networks and educational opportunities (social infrastructures) or smartphone applications for communication between migrants (technical infrastructures), which gain in importance in the course of integration processes and/or transnational migration movements. ...

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Editorial: Infrastructures and migration

... In this chapter, I contribute to the critical analysis of the governmental aims of 'channelling of the expertise and talent of international graduates' in the 'innovation economy'. Attracting international students necessitates movement within the global border regime, itself inextricable from global capitalism and the histories 'Western' colonialism (De Genova et al., 2021;Sharma, 2020). Although the racial logic of the state has gained research attention (e.g. ...

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Patterns of coloniality within the innovation economy: Talent attraction and the converging racialising processes of migration administration

... El protagonismo que se les otorga a los traficantes de personas en el proceso de decisión de cruzar fronteras sin autorización funciona como una cortina de humo, que permite oscurecer el hecho de que un alto número de solicitantes de asilo dependen de traficantes humanos para alcanzar un lugar seguro, y de que el origen de los riesgos asociados a estos cruces tiene más que ver con políticas migratorias que con las acciones de los traficantes. Las asociaciones informales de la sociedad civil colaborando en solidaridad con personas indocumentadas dentro de Europa también se están viendo objeto de prácticas de criminalización(Tazzioli y Walters, 2019). Su vilifación es crucial para justificar políticas de securitización cuya intención declarada es combatir el tráfico y trata de seres humanos, y cuyas consecuencias están 4 Para la definición legal véase el Artículo 3 del Protocolo contra el tráfico ilícito de migrantes por tierra, mar y aire, que complementa la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Delincuencia Organizada Transnacional (2000). ...

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Llegadas no autorizadas a la UE: discursos de legitimidad, derechos humanos y justicia

... Hence, just like knowledge, nonknowledge must be actively produced through particular methods and practices. Moreover, scholars in ignorance studies distinguish between different types of nonknowledge, which may co-exist, such as uncertainty (Aradau 2017), doubt (Biddle and Leuschner 2015), secrecy (Walters 2020), 'strategic unknowns' (McGoey 2012a), or 'undone science' (Hess 2015). Hence, scholars of agnotology ask what we do not know, why we do not know it, how this nonknowledge is produced and sustained and what kind of effects different types of nonknowledge have (Proctor 2008). ...

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The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies

... Una arista importante del caso de Vanessa Gómez Cueva, que no puede ser desarrollada en esta oportunidad debido a la falta de espacio, atañe a la efectividad política que tuvo la campaña llevada adelante con base en su condición de mujer y madre. El caso de Vanessa Gómez Cueva y los argumentos movilizados en contra de su expulsión ofrecen diversos elementos para la discusión sobre la legitimación y la normalización de la deportación a partir de la división entre quiénes son merecedores o no de tal castigo (Cfr.Lecadet, 2018;Walters, 2018a). ...

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La “política de la hostilidad” en Argentina: detención, expulsión y rechazo en frontera

... Air travel is the most inaccessible form of mobility for undocumented migrants and it rarely features in literary texts concerned with clandestine mobilities. As a form of state-enforced mobility (Walters 2018(Walters , 2801, the deportation flight is one way in which air travel becomes accessible to undocumented migrants. As William Walters posits, aviation has become "central to the infrastructure of deportation today" (2016, 436): without its "capacity to forcibly transport large numbers of people great distances the weapon of deportation would lose much of its potency" (437). ...

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Clandestine Afroeuropean Itineraries

... Deportation does not just target noncitizens, illegalized others, etc. At the same time, it operates on and through living bodies (Khosravi, 2009;Makeremi 2018;Walters 2017). Moving people against their will entails a whole series of operations which include seizing but also calming, hurting but also soothing, personalizing and depersonalizing, informing and sometimes misinforming, promising and betraying, immobilizing and mobilizing, scaring and reassuring (Kalir, 2017). ...

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Studying migration policies at the interface between empirical research and normative analysis.