This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the geopolitics and political geographies of migration. There has also been an extensive amount of scholarship, including several special issues focused on migration, borders, and displacement from state and non-state institutional management to the everyday experiences of individual migrants. The political geographies and geopolitics of human displacement in this report are organized into the following thematic categories: state and institutional management, institutionalized suspicion of migrant populations, border management techniques and technologies, and re-centering migrant experiences.
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AlvaradoNA (2022) Migrant politics in the urban global south: the political work of Nicaraguan migrants to acquire urban rights in Costa Rica. Geopolitics27(4): 1180–1204.
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