ABSTRACT

The conclusion takes stock of the conceptual advances of the three core concepts that, taken together, constitute a revised version of the Autonomy of Migration approach (AoM) that transcends the limited situatedness and technological blindness of the existing literature. These concepts include, inter alia, the conception of autonomy as the instigation of a relation of conflict within the security dispositif by migrants’ practices of appropriation, which can be studied in migrants’ embodied encounters with border control authorities. The final section discusses what this reading of the AoM can contribute, in political and epistemological terms, to the realisation of anti-racist politics at the current conjuncture.