alison mountz  assistant professor

phd university of british columbia, 2003 ma hunter college, cuny, 1998 ba dartmouth college, 1995

email amountz@maxwell.syr.edu office hours by appointment

stateless by geographical design

boundaries in syracuse

policing the next urban frontier

canadian border and human smuggling

publications

2009. States of migration: human smuggling and the borders of sovereignty. Under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.

2008. Performing distinction: the paradoxical positionings of refugees. T. Cresswell, P. Merriman (eds), Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, and Subjects. Ashgate.

2008. Key Concepts in Political Geography. Thousand Oaks: Sage (with C. Gallaher, C. Dahlman, M. Gilmartin with P. Shirlow).

2008. Participatory Action Research as Pedagogy: Boundaries in Syracuse. ACME, 7(2): 214-238 (with E. Moore, L. Brown).

2008. Another brick in the wall? Neo-refoulement and the externalisation of asylum in Australia and Europe. Government & Opposition, 43(2) 249-269 (with J. Hyndman).

2007. Smoke and mirrors: An ethnography of the state. E. Sheppard, T. Barnes, J. Peck, A. Tickell (eds), Politics and practice in economic geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 38-48.

2007.  Bringing Transnational Feminisms into Conversation. Gender, Place & Culture, 14(6): 757-759.

2006. Feminist approaches to the global intimate. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 
34 (1&2): 446-463 (with J. Hyndman).

2006. Gender, Geography, and Policy: the Conundrums of Engagement. Geojournal, 65(4): 263-273 (with M. Walton-Roberts).

2006. Human Smuggling and the Canadian State. Canadian Foreign Policy, 13(1): 59-80.

2006. Refuge or refusal: The Geography of Exclusion. D. Gregory, A. Pred (eds), Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror and Political Violence. New York: Routledge, pp. 77-92 (with J. Hyndman).

2006. Geography and the State. B. Warf (ed), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 461-462.

2005. Digression analysis: A decidedly editorial introduction to the symposium on the state of urban geography, dispatches from the field. Urban Geography, 26(3): 243-246 (with D. Prytherch).

2004. Embodying the Nation-State: Canada's Response to Human Smuggling.  Political Geography, 23(3): 323-345.

2004. Re-thinking the State from the Margins of Political Geography. Political Geography, 23(3): 241-243 (with C. Desbiens, M. Walton-Roberts). 

2004. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State.  C. Katz, S.A. Marston, K. Mitchell (eds), Life's Work. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 203-225.

2003. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Antipode 35(3): 622-644.

2003. Methodologically becoming:  power, knowledge, and team research. Gender, Place & Culture 10(1): 29-46 (with I. Miyares, R. Wright, A. Bailey).

2003. The Interrupted Circle: Truncated Transnationalism and the Salvadoran Experience. Journal of Latin American Geography 2(1): 74-86 (with I. Miyares, R. Wright, A. Bailey, J. Jonak).

2002. Lives in limbo:  Temporary Protected Status and immigrant identities. Global Networks 2(4): 335-356 (with R. Wright, I. Miyares, A. Bailey).

2002. Producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(1): 125-144 (with A. Bailey, R. Wright, I. Miyares).

2002. Feminist Politics, Immigration, and Academic Identities. Gender, Place & Culture 9(2): 187-194.

2002. Immigration to British Columbia:  Media Representation and Public Opinion. Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis, Working Paper Series, No. 02-15. http://www.riim.metropolis.net (with M. Mahtani).

2002. The challenges to responding to human smuggling in Canada: Practitioners reflect on the 1999 boat arrivals in British Columbia. Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis, Working Paper Series, No. 02-23. http://www.riim.metropolis.net (with A. Charlton, S. Duff, D. Grant, R. Pike, J. Sohn, C. Taylor).

2001. Interpretation, representation, positionality: issues in field research in human geography. In M. Limb, C. Dwyer (eds) Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers. London: Arnold, pp. 234-237 (with D. Ley).

2001. 'Thank God she’s not sick.’ Health and disciplinary practice among Salvadoran women in northern New Jersey. In I. Dyck, N. Lewis, S. McLafferty (eds) Geographies of Women’s Health. New York, London: Routledge, pp. 127-142 (with C. Kerner, A. Bailey, I. Miyares, R. Wright).

2001. Diane Nelson, A Finger in the Wound: body politics in quincentennial Guatemala. Gender, Place & Culture, 8(4): 422-424.

2000. Legal Status, Gender, and Employment among Salvadorans in the US. International Journal of Population Geography 6: 273-286 (with R. Wright, A. Bailey, I. Miyares).

1996. Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca and Poughkeepsie, New York. Diaspora 6: 403-428 (with R. Wright). 

under review and revision (available from author)

Performing the state: migration, ethnography, and the constitution of identities.

From protection to securitization: contemporary geographies of asylum, detention, and activism in Australia.

Stateless by geographical design: refugees, irregular migrants, and the shifting geography of enforcement. 

Policing in drag: Giuliani goes global with the illusion of control (with W. Curran).
 

 teaching

global communities (max 132)

political geography (geo 372)

boundaries in syracuse (geo 500)

space and sexuality (geo 500)

the urban condition (geo 563)

research design (geo 602)

borders/ migration (geo 700)

feminist geography (geo 876)

 advising

nancy hiemstra

ishan ashutosh

mary jean byrne-maisto

kate senner

jacque micieli

 advisees who have completed