Introduction: Citizens and Borderwork in Europe

Rumford, Chris

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“…This conversation has also argued for the border to become the starting point of investigation and not the taken-for-granted subject (Parker and VaughanWilliams, 2012). Building on this, the concept of the borderscape has emerged, alluding not only to the productive and dynamic nature of borders as social practices of spatial differentiation, something often referred to as bordering (Paasi, 1998) or borderwork (Rumford, 2008), but also to the 'dislocation, relocation and multiplication of borders and their functions and practices through borders' distribution and proliferation in a variety of social and political arenas' (Brambilla, 2015: 15). As a result it is argued that border studies needs 'retooling in the face of the diffusion and complexification of borders' (Brambilla, 2015: 16).…”

Section: Borderscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape

Pallister‐Wilkins

2017

Environ Plan D

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This article makes the case for the consideration of a humanitarian borderscape. The article analyses the recent humanitarian responses to irregular migration in the Mediterranean, Aegean and Greece and argues that processes of im/mobility produce specific times, spaces and types of care. The argument transcends recent discussions on the shrinking and/or expanding of humanitarian spaces, suggesting instead that a focus on the specific setting of the border and the dynamics of mobility are more useful to understanding humanitarian responses to mobility and immobility. In addition, the article contributes to the emerging literature on borderscapes by offering an interpretive analysis of the creation of a particular humanitarian borderscape made up of specific features and activities, which are undertaken by a multiplicity of actors in multiple places. Building on a consideration of this multiplicity, the article focuses specifically on the work of Médecins Sans Frontières.

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Section: Borderscapesmentioning

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Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape

Pallister‐Wilkins

2017

Environ Plan D

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“…Even though such an approach is very welcome, it pays far too little attention to the study of the technological aspects within border practices. Following Chris Rumford (2008) and his concept of "borderwork," which foregrounds the multiplicity of border practices, we propose that it is necessary to consider the rate of technology work in bordering processes. Just like bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering practices (Rumford 2006) outline border zones, particular technologies develop their agency and their potentials within a technological zone and shape its contours.…”

Section: Border Zones and A New Technological Zone: Eu-lisamentioning

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Eurodac in Times of Bigness: The Power of Big Data within the Emerging European IT Agency

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2016

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Private and government sectors are operating hand in hand for biometric identity assurance solutions to meet security requirements at borders, for elections or for the private sector. Our paper will explore Eurodac, a large biometric information database concerning asylum applications and irregular border crossings, as part of the emerging European Big Data Economy. Drawing on the concept of the digital border and of the surveillance assemblage (Haggerty, Kevin D., and Richard V. Ericson. 2000. The Surveillant Assemblage. British Journal of Sociology 51, no. 4: 605-22) we understand Eurodac not only as a technological border but as inflected by social, symbolic, organizational and juridical cultures, practices, and imaginaries that are beyond the literal realm of the electronic space. Our paper investigates the dynamics of big data in the context of the integration of Eurodac within the larger framework of the European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area freedom, security and justice (EU-LISA). EU-LISA is the operational platform of three large-scale European databases with regards to foreigners and their mobility within and towards Europe, namely Eurodac, the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS). This paper tries to outline some of the problems brought about when processing big amounts of data for the purpose of European immigration and identification policies.

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“…Local groups of "ordinary citizens" are able to both inscribe and overcome borders by strategically taking advantage of different national and European policies to protect a commercial product or regional identity. 77 This borderwork is possible because the borders these citizens perform are multiple, functioning to connect that region to larger networks and to divide that region from local competitors. In his work on Protected Geographical Indications, we see non-state groups invoking the bordering protection of the EU for their local economic products, such as Melton Mowbray pork pies or Stilton cheese.…”

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Theory of the / : The Suture and Critical Border Studies

Salter

2012

Geopolitics

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Borders are crucial sites of political and spatial contestation: and in an attempt to evade the lamentation for an ideal model of a single line or the empty insistence of the dominance of that line, this article argues that the trope of the suture better captures the dual world-creating functions of the border. By examining the critical border theories of Agamben, Walker, and Galli, the suture better focuses analytical attention towards the role of borders in the creation of both sovereign states and the system of sovereign states.

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Introduction: Citizens and Borderwork in Europe

Cited by 210 publications

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Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape

Médecins Avec Frontières and the making of a humanitarian borderscape

Eurodac in Times of Bigness: The Power of Big Data within the Emerging European IT Agency

Theory of the / : The Suture and Critical Border Studies

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