In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of "Europe" see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom of movement. Addressing the new technologies and technical forms European states use to curb, control, and constrain what contributors to the volume call the autonomy of migration, this book shows how the continent's amorphous borders present a premier site for the enactment and disputation of the very idea of Europe. They also outline how from Istanbul to London, Sweden to Mali, and Tunisia to Latvia, migrants are finding ways to subvert visa policies and asylum procedures while negotiating increasingly militarized and surveilled borders. Situating the migration crisis within a global frame and attending to migrant and refugee supporters as well as those who stoke nativist fears, this timely volume demonstrates how the enforcement of Europe’s borders is an important element of the worldwide regulation of human mobility.
Contributors. Ruben Andersson, Nicholas De Genova, Dace Dzenovska, Evelina Gambino, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Clara Lecadet, Souad Osseiran, Lorenzo Pezzani, Fiorenza Picozza, Stephan Scheel, Maurice Stierl, Laia Soto Bermant, Martina Tazzioli
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Borders of “Europe” and the European Question
- 1. “The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper”: Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization
- 2. Rescued and Caught: The Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe’s Frontiers
- 3. Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier
- 4. The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Peripheries
- 5. Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants’ Associations in Africa
- 6. Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies
- 7. “Europe” from “Here”: Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within “Europe”
- 8. Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope
- 9. Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality, and Refugeeness within Europe’s Geographies of Asylum
- 10. The “Gran Ghettò”: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy
- 11. “We Want to Hear from You”: Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe
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- Contributors
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