Glitches, geopoetics, and the matter of migration: Regrounding beyond citizenship.
This paper explores the concept of regrounding as a form of poetic justice that unsettles dominant paradigms of national citizenship. Drawing on nearly two years of institutional ethnography and participatory action research with organisations supporting migrants in northeast England, the paper deve...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Journal Vol. 192; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2026
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