B/ordering Turbulence Beyond Europe: Expert Knowledge in the Management of Human Mobility

Casas-Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastián; Pickles, John

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“…On the other hand, the prominent role of mobility, flows and movement provides alternative notions of understanding and building ocean space (Cresswell, 2010;Harris, 2013), in this case by shifting or dismantling the fixity of national sea borders. In this vein, although scholars acknowledge the polymorphic nature of borders and their fluid character (Konrad, 2015;Rumford, 2012), they also observe that bordering regimes have hardened against the backdrop of the climate crisis, the war on drugs, increasing geopolitical disputes, the Covid pandemic, and the arrival of migrants and asylum seekers, that exacerbate island populations' vulnerability by limiting their movement and imposing harsh and excluding migratory systems (Burridge et al, 2017;Casas-Cortés et al, 2019;Loyd & Mountz, 2014;Vives, 2017).…”

Section: Theoretical Vantagepointsmentioning

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The Sea Unites Us but It Is Governed to Keep Us Apart: Restoring the Creole Afro-Indigenous Sea Mobilities in the Southwestern Caribbean.

Garcia Ch.

2024

Island Studies Journal

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Increasingly, marine governance advocates for ocean justice and, within it, the rights of coastal communities and indigenous people over the ocean space. Yet, international and state sea regimes strengthen border restrictions, impeding people’s mobilities and fracturing the sea interconnectedness. Against this backdrop and delving into the empirical data gathered through ethnographical research, the paper examines the intangible and the material sea (im)mobilities experienced by the Creole Afro-Indigenous communities in the Corn Islands and the San Andres Archipelago in the Southwestern Caribbean Sea. Through the lens of critical ocean geography and mobility studies, it reveals how the maritime boundary regimes and the frameworks of oceans territoriality have impacted indigenous island spatialities in the Nicaraguan-Colombian marine border area for the last decades, disrupting family and social connections, weakening the communities’ autonomy, and impeding food and provisions supply between the islands, thus threatening the indigenous rights with implications for ocean justice. The paper finally considers Creole Afro-Indigenous maritime activism’s prominent role in decolonizing marine governance in the Greater Caribbean region, suggesting the relevance of laws, norms, structures and ocean governance institutions to acknowledge and incorporate these alternative legalities.

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Section: Theoretical Vantagepointsmentioning

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The Sea Unites Us but It Is Governed to Keep Us Apart: Restoring the Creole Afro-Indigenous Sea Mobilities in the Southwestern Caribbean.

Garcia Ch.

2024

Island Studies Journal

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“…In “B/Ordering Turbulence” my research team analysed the ICMPD as a key expert knowledge producer with growing influence among EU policy circles (Casas‐Cortes et al. ). We signalled how ICMPD's own terminologies and cartographies impact migration management discourses and practices.…”

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“…Entitled “B/Ordering Turbulence Beyond Europe: Expert Knowledge in the Management of Human Mobility”, the chapter explores how ICMPD's own terminologies and cartographies impact migration management discourses and practices (see Casas‐Cortes et al. ).…”

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Mapping Illegality: The i‐Map and the Cartopolitics of “Migration Management” at a Distance

Cobarrubias

2019

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Cartographies for “migration management” are part and parcel of controversial border practices far from conventional borderlines. Focusing on the i‐Map, this study renders how the European Union's current practices of remote border control are visualised among migration policy circles and expert security actors through a “mapping migration matrix”. The lines portraying migration flows in recurrent maps generate a shared expert language and a common geographical imaginary reinforcing practices of contention and classification of those assumed to move toward the European Union irregularly. It is argued that illegality is constructed in ways that target border crossing long before any border is crossed, making someone illegal at the very moment and place where s/he might decide to migrate. This paper analyses the cartopolitics and limits of cartographic expertise in the production of a “routes thinking” able to legitimise extra‐territorial interceptions and practices of remote border control.

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“…Although the EU border regime and its externalisation of migration management have been widely analysed and discussed in the academic literature (Afail et al, 2018; Bobić and Šantić, 2019; Bruns, 2019; Casas-Cortes et al, 2019; Crane, 2019), a detailed analysis of the performative role of language remains largely lacking. Indeed, scholars have investigated the role of knowledge production at the border, analysing both expert knowledge (Aradau and Munster, 2007; Amoore and Raley, 2017; Martins and Jumbert, 2020) and the knowledge produced by technology (Glouftsios and Scheel, 2021) and cartography (Cobarrubias, 2019; Van Houtum and Bueno Lacy, 2020).…”

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A close look at the EU–Turkey deal: The language of border externalisation

Casaglia

Pacciardi

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The article discusses the language of border externalisation processes by examining the knowledge that stands as the basis of the EU–Turkey deal and reports on its implementation, placing them in the context of the transformation of the EU border regime. It is the result of a study addressing the language and key concepts that organise border externalisation and its geographic and biopolitical episteme. Our interest lies in the production of knowledge emerging from the EU–Turkey deal, and its effects on both the mainstream discourse on migration and the legitimation and acceptance of violent border management practices. To do this, we offer an interpretation of the textual materials composing the deal as promoting a discourse on migrants that strictly categorises territories and peoples, and establishes geographies of control and hierarchies of deserving and undeserving subjects, by asserting new forms of biopolitical control and care over their bodies. The presentation of research results combines the extraction of keywords and sentences from the documents analysed with an interpretation of their epistemic strength in producing and promoting specific biased Eurocentric narratives on migrants and migration. At the core of the agreement’s texts we find the category of the ‘deserving migrant’ as increasingly defining and circumscribing mobility, and realised in the one-for-one swap policy.

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B/ordering Turbulence Beyond Europe: Expert Knowledge in the Management of Human Mobility

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The Sea Unites Us but It Is Governed to Keep Us Apart: Restoring the Creole Afro-Indigenous Sea Mobilities in the Southwestern Caribbean.

The Sea Unites Us but It Is Governed to Keep Us Apart: Restoring the Creole Afro-Indigenous Sea Mobilities in the Southwestern Caribbean.

Mapping Illegality: The i‐Map and the Cartopolitics of “Migration Management” at a Distance

A close look at the EU–Turkey deal: The language of border externalisation

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