Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries

Casas-Cortés, Maribel; Cobarrubias, Sebastián

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“…The perspective of externalisation is, in itself, inevitably state‐centric and Euro‐centric. Seeing the centre‐margin axis (Parker, 2008) within the broader context of the border regime, as this paper has tried to do, may help building alternatives to concentric (Casas‐Cortés & Cobarrubias, 2019; İşleyen, 2018b) and state‐centric views.…”

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“…By focusing on diverse non-state actors, and by drawing on ethnographic research in two North African countries, the paper also tries to adopt a less univocal, state-centric, and European perspective, thus addressing recent calls to avoid Euro-centrism in the study of externalisation and EU-neighbourhood policy (Bürkner & Scott, 2018;Casas-Cortés & Cobarrubias, 2019;Celata & Coletti, 2016;Üstübici, Stock, & Schultz, 2019-2020Gaibazzi, Bellagamba, & Dünnwald, 2017b;Genç, Heck, & Hess, 2018;_ Işleyen, 2018b;Tazzioli, 2015). Indeed, EU-externalisation "is not a smooth top-down process" (Bartels, 2018, p. 64) and "cannot be understood entirely in terms of an old style geopolitics of dominance" (Collyer, 2016, p. 610).…”

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Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

Cuttitta

2020

Population Space and Place

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This paper sheds light on the role of non-governmental/civil society organisations, as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in the externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt. These organisations are involved in migration-related activities, which, from the externalisation perspective, should prevent people from attempting the sea-crossing to Europe, thus immobilising them in North Africa. The paper is an ethnographic border regime analysis drawing on extensive fieldwork. It shows that European Union-externalisation is not a univocal and smooth process. Instead, externalisation is entangled in a complex network of actors and dynamics. Measures meant to support externalisation may produce effects contrary to those envisaged, whereas practices accomplishing externalisation goals may be in fact the result of internalisation. By analysing the various actors in their diverse practices and in their-sometimes conflictual-relationships, the paper also tries to minimise state-centrism and Euro-centrism in the study of externalisation.

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Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

Cuttitta

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…Finally, we are also inspired by scholarship engaging with the concept of migratory “routes” as distinct cartographic narratives “of migration” deriving from EU policy-geographies that partition the world into “concentric circles of uneven mobilities”, tracing “routes” from countries of origin to those of destinations, as Casas-Cortes and Cobarrubias (2019: 200) have argued. Indeed, the authors (Casas-Cortes et al 2015: 900) distinguish between “routes” and “itineraries”, defining the former as spatial configurations meant to channel migrant mobilities into linear routes, and the latter as the “migrants’ paths and passages whose spatial configurations always exceed the ability of formal routes management to synthesize and regulate them”.We also draw, accordingly, on Walters’ (2015: 473) notion of viapolitics , which stresses the importance of mobility infrastructures, such as vehicles, roads, and routes, which he conceptualizes as “mobile zones of governance” and of migratory struggles “in their own right”.…”

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The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route

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Białasiewicz

2023

Environ Plan D

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This article examines some of the contested geographical imaginaries of the so-called “Balkan Route” as part of the wider Mediterranean migration complex. More specifically, we interrogate how such varied imaginaries of the Route contribute to shaping conflicting geographies of responsibility for migration in the region among a shifting set of international and state actors. We highlight how the attribution of responsibility for the governance of migration is shaped by numerous geographical and historical entanglements, including on-going processes of post-conflict state-making and the geopolitics of European Union accession, with migrants becoming pawns in the negotiation of preferential relations between the countries of the region and the European Union. Focusing in particular on the framing of migration policy responses along the Croatia–Bosnia and Italy–Slovenia sections of the Route, we examine the perspectives of both policy-makers and solidarity networks active in the area, noting how their divergent narratives contribute to the proliferation of conflicting formal and informal practices of border control.

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“…This process occurred in tandem with the emergence of the European Union and the institution of freedom of movement for European citizens (Vigneswaran 2019). However, in the course of the Europeanisation of migration policies, explicit traces of racial categorisation were replaced with neutral and technical terms even as the hierarchies of rights founded on racial categories have been perpetuated and exacerbated (Paoli 2015;Sandoz 2019, 59-60;Casas-Cortés and Cobarrubias 2019). Race has thus become a 'vanishing mediator' (Jameson 1973), which despite having been erased continues to shape the harsh reality of exclusionary bordering policies and practices that disproportionately target racialised subjects (Garner 2007) -as looking at the illegalised passengers of any boat crossing the sea easily reveals.…”

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De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic

Heller

2021

Mobilities

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This article, primarily focused on Europe, charts some of the momentous transformations in bordering practices, migration and global mobility that have been sparked by the new coronavirus pandemic. In a first part it argues that since the onset of the pandemic, the enduring 'global mobility apartheid' which uses citizenship and visa restrictions to police the differential access to mobility founded on race and class, has been supplemented by a fluctuating 'sanitary apartheid', seeking to separate populations designated as at risk of Covid-19 infection from those designated as Covid-free. While these logics are distinct, where states have conflated them, we have seen eruptive and mutating border violence. In a second more normative part the article seeks to rethink the demand for freedom of movement in the context of the pandemic, arguing that allowing migrants who today are illegalised to move in safe and legal ways is also the condition to implement sanitary measures to protect the health of migrants and sedentary populations alike. Adopting a mobility justice approach, the article also argues that the excessive mobility of the privileged through air travel that has been a major factor in spreading the virus and contributes to ecological destruction should be limited. Ultimately this article calls for re-thinking the politics of (im)mobility in the context of the pandemic as part of the process of transformation towards a more just and sustainable world.

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Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries

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Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

Non‐governmental/civil society organisations and the European Union‐externalisation of migration management in Tunisia and Egypt

The entangled geographies of responsibility: Contested policy narratives of migration governance along the Balkan Route

De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic

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