Urban securitization and inland border enforcement

[Introduction]: "The securitization of (sub-)urban spaces has produced new practices and agents of border control (Parmar, 2020; Back & Sinha, 2018; Weber, 2015, 2013). Police, by-law officers, and angents of public institutions like schools and hospitals are joined by private actors (e.g. employers, landlords) in the management of perceived threats to state and citizen at the local scale. The policing of migrants is part of much broader dynamics of militarized policing and nation-building, where non-citizens are limped in with citizens as "internal dangerous foreigner" owing to ascribed markers of social difference like race, gender, and class (Dhamoon & Abu-Laban, 2009; Kinsman et al., 2000). But it does have distinct implications for migrants. often seen as a site of hope, refuge, and belonging, the city is also a site within whih derneral authorities project their power most intensely."