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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:20.0pt;color:#1F497D">Michael Collyer</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#1F497D">Michael Collyer is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sussex, where he is also affiliated with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#18376A">Over the last few years a politics of anti-mobility has been apparent in approaches to migration across the European Union, but particularly in the UK. Drawing on established approaches
to visibility and legibility in analysis of state action, this paper argues that these recent developments highlight how the goal of the state is not the visibility of undocumented migrants but their legibility to state institutions. The paper then turns to
empirical material from the end of the conflict in Sri Lanka, applying this framework to internal migration from the north and east of the country to the capital, which was met with a similar anti-mobility response. Extensive interview and survey data with
migrants to Colombo allows an investigation of migrants’ responses to this securitized approach. Although migrants’ responses are highly disempowered they are far from passive. Indeed, migrants’ responses can be read as highly tactical, playing on an intimate
understanding of the key dialectic between visibility and legibility that they witness in state attempts to control mobility. In relatively few cases, migrants are visible but not legible to state bureaucracy leading to a suspended status of radical exclusion
where human rights abuses were most frequent. This key area of concern challenges the ways in which visibility and legibility are typically seen in understandings of migration.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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