ABSTRACT
Neo-liberal globalisation has promoted two major global crises – of governability and of governmentality. Top down, the development of everyday bordering as the major technology of controlling diversity and discourses on diversity; bottom up, the rise of religious and secular autochthonic populist political movements of belonging. The growing demonisation of ‘The Migrant’ and control of migration is a central symbolic construct in both these responses and a convenient distraction from other systemic issues that need to be confronted locally and globally to overcome these crises. Yet, there are also political movements of resistance.
