3 Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier

Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo

doi:10.1515/9780822372660-005

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“…In doing so they produce critiques to discourses and practices that reject the language of 'crisis' as an exceptional state of current borders, and instead foreground the constitutive relations between migration, bordering, and the continuation of colonial violence, genocide and slavery. Rather than speaking a language of 'hospitality' and 'generosity' towards the 'suffering other' these practices and spaces seek to hold Europe, its states and its borders accountable and responsible for the historical and contemporary forms of violence (Heller et al 2017;Pezzani and Heller 2013).…”

Section: Solidarity As Resistance To the Humanitarian Industrial Complexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity

Dadusc

Mudu

2020

Geopolitics

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In this paper we discuss the criminalisation of migrant solidarity, intended as practices of resistance to the current regulation and management of borders in Europe. We argue that the target of criminalisation is not simply humanitarian assistance: rather, we propose a differentiation between autonomous solidarity and humanitarianism, arguing that while the first is criminalised, the latter is often complicit in the harms and violence of borders.Drawing on critical humanitarian studies, we argue that autonomous migrant solidarity distinguishes itself from what we address as the 'Humanitarian Industrial Complex' in its active refusal to the legal obligations to control and report undocumented migrants to the authorities; its resistance to the racialised hierarchies entailed by humanitarian aid; as well as in its contestation of the commodification of migrant lives. Rather than 'filling the gaps' of the state or ameliorating borders and their violence, autonomous practices of migrant solidarity seek to 'create cracks' in the smooth operation of border regimes. It is because of their intrinsic character of opposition to both the militarisation of borders and to humanitarian technologies of government, we argue, that autonomous practices of migrant's solidarity are accused of 'facilitating illegal migration' and become the target of state repression.

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Section: Solidarity As Resistance To the Humanitarian Industrial Complexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity

Dadusc

Mudu

2020

Geopolitics

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“…As a methodological approach, counter-mapping aims at investigating and uncovering the mobile, invisible and temporary spaces of transit and refuge, highlighting the 'spatial and temporal' traces of these informal geographies that are often not 'apprehensible on the geopolitical map' yet which may continue to live on even after they have been evicted, destroyed or 'disappeared' (Tazzioli and Garelli, 2019: 3). In focusing on temporalities, traces and afterlives of makeshift camps, we position this article alongside other scholarship which shares the political imperative of foregrounding absences and silences, and exposing forms of hidden or obscured violence through a 'disobedient gaze' (Heller and Pezzani, 2017;Pezzani and Heller, 2013;Tazzioli, 2020c). We return to the example of the 'jungle' of Idomenia site that briefly housed thousands of people and sprung up and sprawled across the train tracks around the Greek border village, or the Belgrade 'Barracks'which hosted 2000 migrants in and around the central bus station in the dead of winter before its eviction and destruction, as well as countless other makeshift camps that have come and gone across Europe and beyond (the jungles of Calais and Dunkirk, the squats of Paris at La Chappelle, Rome Tiburtina, the Budapest Keleti train station camp, the various squats at Ventimiglia and many more).…”

Section: Makeshift Camp Temporalities: Ephemerality Afterlivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a methodological approach, counter-mapping aims at investigating and uncovering the mobile, invisible and temporary spaces of transit and refuge, highlighting the ‘spatial and temporal’ traces of these informal geographies that are often not ‘apprehensible on the geopolitical map’ yet which may continue to live on even after they have been evicted, destroyed or ‘disappeared’ (Tazzioli and Garelli, 2019: 3). In focusing on temporalities, traces and afterlives of makeshift camps, we position this article alongside other scholarship which shares the political imperative of foregrounding absences and silences, and exposing forms of hidden or obscured violence through a ‘disobedient gaze’ (Heller and Pezzani, 2017; Pezzani and Heller, 2013; Tazzioli, 2020c).…”

Section: Approaching the Makeshift Campmentioning

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Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors

Jordan

Minca

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Makeshift camps have increasingly become a permanent presence along border areas and in cities around Europe and elsewhere, constituting a ‘hidden geography’ that is crucial to overland mobilities of thousands of migrants each year and essential to understanding contemporary informal migration. While there is rich and burgeoning scholarship on makeshift camps, substantial gaps remain in the understanding of these informal geographies which have not yet been conceptualized in terms of the key roles they play in the production of informal migration corridors nor the unique forms of daily life en route that they support, as this paper intends to do.

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“…Tam da bu noktada, kurtarma operasyonlarını geciktirme, erteleme veya reddetme stratejilerinin bir sonucu olarak, Akdeniz, bir kayıp alanına dönüşür. Sonuç olarak, Akdeniz'in ortasında, denizin sert rüzgarında ve dalgalarında, göçmenler yalnız bırakılır ve ölüme terk edilir; "dokunmadan öldüren sistematik şiddet" de tam olarak bu eylemsizlik ve sorumsuzluk siyaseti ile kurumsallaşır (Heller and Pezzani, 2014;Cuttitta, 2018).…”

Section: Kavramsal Ve Kuramsal çErçeve: Islak Ontoloji̇ Ve Ege Deni̇z...unclassified

Border Governance on the Waves of the Aegean Sea: Actors, Discourses and Practices

Karadağ

2022

İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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The article provides an extensive empirical analysis of sovereign practices and border governance monitoring and controlling the clandestine migration in the Aegean Sea. By utilizing the notion of “wet ontology” that refers to the distinctive materiality of the sea shaping the nature of the modus operandi, the study analyzes the web of discourses, actual practices and technologies constituting the political space of the Aegean Sea. The article argues that the contextualized “wet ontology” of the Aegean Sea lays the ground for the production of certain governing tool for armed forces to legitimize their military actions of interceptions as a rescue mission. The strategy of intercepting in guise of rescue as a moderated violence is produced and materialized in different manners in Turkey and Greece. In the article, firstly the contextualized “wet ontology” of the Aegean Sea will distinctive be elaborated together with its spatial and juridical configuration that lead to particular power projections. Then, these particular power projections and interception techniques will be empirically discussed within the contexts of Turkey and Greece. The empirical data of the study is based on an ethnographic research design conducted in 2015-2018 in Greece (Lesbos) and Turkey.

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3 Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier

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Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity

Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity

Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors

Border Governance on the Waves of the Aegean Sea: Actors, Discourses and Practices

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