This commentary reflects upon Miriam Tedeschi’s (2020) use of Gilbert Simondon’s work to examine the lived experience of irregular migrants in Finland. It considers what Simondon’s ideas illuminate as well as what they appear to leave relatively unexamined. If we are to understand the lived experience of irregular migrants, it is argued that we need theoretical resources that more fully foreground social and political processes of welcome/unwelcome, recognition/disregard and hospitality/hostility. To the extent that Simondon’s work supports only a generalised consideration of such matters, it might usefully be supplemented by perspectives that address them in more depth. In this regard, it is suggested that postcolonial and critical geographical scholarship could enable fuller recognition of and attunement to the complex lived experience of irregular migrants.

这篇评论反映了米里亚姆·特德斯基（Miriam Tedeschi）（2020）利用吉尔伯特·西蒙登（Gilbert Simondon）的作品来考察芬兰非正规移民的生活经历。它考虑了西蒙登的思想所阐明的内容以及它们似乎尚未被相对研究的东西。如果我们要了解非正规移民的生活经验，则认为我们需要理论资源，以便更充分地展现欢迎/不欢迎，承认/漠视以及款待/敌对的社会和政治进程。就西蒙登的工作仅支持对此类问题的一般性考虑而言，可以通过更深入地解决这些问题的观点来对其进行有益的补充。在这方面，