Format:
XII, 178 S.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780198747024
Content:
The European Union (EU) Commission champions a 'migrant-centred' approach to border security and 'irregular' migration management: it claims not only to observe human rights, but also to use surveillance to enhance the humanitarian protection of 'endangered' lives on land and at sea. Yet research presented by Non-Governmental Organizations and 'irregular' migrants' own testimonies reveal systemic border violence, dehumanization in spaces of detention, and exposure to death via abandonment in hostile environments. This book turns to conceptual resources found in biopolitical theory in order to move diagnoses of Europe's border crisis beyond that of a 'gap' between the policy 'rhetoric' of humanitarianism and the 'reality' of 'irregular' migrants' embodied experiences. It argues that both 'positive' and 'negative' dimensions of EU border security are symptomatic of tensions within biopolitical techniques of government and what Roberto Esposito refers to as the paradigm of immunization. While bordering practices are designed to play a defensive role they contain the potential for excessive and often lethal security mechanisms that end up threatening the very values and lives they purport to protect. Each chapter draws on a different biopolitical key to identify and interrogate diverse technologies of power at a range of border sites. Must border security always result in dehumanization and death? Are humanitarian discourses sufficient for critiquing contemporary forms of border violence? Is a more affirmative approach to border politics possible? 'Europe's border crisis' addresses these pressing questions and advances new research agendas for critical border and migration studies beyond existing debates about 'control' versus 'escape'
Content:
Borders, crises, critique -- Biopolitical borders -- Thanatopolitical borders -- Zoopolitical borders -- Immunitary borders -- Affirmative borders
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Vaughan-Williams, Nick Europe's border crisis Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780191809293
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Europäische Union
;
Grenze
;
Sicherheit
;
Migration
;
Europäische Union
;
Mitgliedsstaaten
;
Grenzschutz
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