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<p>This paper explores geolegal distance, specifically how legality and borders are entwined with how migrants and their families experience space–time and the relations of care when someone pursues “making it” abroad. We contend that distance is experienced through social, spatial, and temporal forms of separation felt first and foremost in intimate kinship relations. Because of this, feelings of distance are often explained through personal, private, or moral rationales that obscure the workings of the geo-legal. The stories and experiences explored in this paper illustrate how U.S. and Canadian borders operate in highly intimate and emotional ways, fomenting distance in families and obscuring ongoing efforts to immobilize, confine and criminalize Gambians seeking opportunities in North America.</p>

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Geolegal distance: success and separation in gambian transnational families

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    2025年6月25日

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  • Martin Aucoin,
  • Cynthia Gorman

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This paper explores geolegal distance, specifically how legality and borders are entwined with how migrants and their families experience space–time and the relations of care when someone pursues “making it” abroad. We contend that distance is experienced through social, spatial, and temporal forms of separation felt first and foremost in intimate kinship relations. Because of this, feelings of distance are often explained through personal, private, or moral rationales that obscure the workings of the geo-legal. The stories and experiences explored in this paper illustrate how U.S. and Canadian borders operate in highly intimate and emotional ways, fomenting distance in families and obscuring ongoing efforts to immobilize, confine and criminalize Gambians seeking opportunities in North America.