State Project Europe: The Transformation of the European Border Regime and the Production of Bare Life

Buckel, Sonja; Wissel, Jens

doi:10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00089.x

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“…Buckel and Wissel, 2010). The figure of a fortress might also mask the fact that the continued crossing of migrants is testimony to the 'porosity and failure of [the] selfproclaimed omnipotent "fortress"' (Tsianos and Karakayali, 2010).…”

Section: Beyond Borders As Wallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial - Gendered Fortress Europe

Jong¹,

Koevoets²,

Leeuwen³

2014

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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Section: Beyond Borders As Wallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial - Gendered Fortress Europe

Jong¹,

Koevoets²,

Leeuwen³

2014

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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“…Certain relationships do exist between the two. The 'state of exception' concept (Agamben, 1998) can be used in order to envisage this very specific power relation (Buckel and Wissel, 2010;Walters, 2008).…”

Section: Undocumented Migrants and The State Of Exceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In particular, the paradigm of the 'camp', which is a territorial materialization of the state of exception (Buckel and Wissel, 2010;Fassin, 2005), is particularly relevant to the situation of undocumented migrants and refugees: it is 'the space that opens up when the state of exception starts to become the rule' (Agamben, 2000: 39).…”

Section: Undocumented Migrants and The State Of Exceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing the protests of undocumented migrants beyond contexts: collective actions as acts of emancipation

Monforte

Dufour

2012

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power relations that undocumented migrants face. Given that they occupy a very specific position in society (i.e., they are neither included in nor completely excluded from citizenship), they experience similar forms of power relations vis-à-vis public authorities in different countries. We argue that this leads them to participate in collective actions as acts of emancipation. Our analysis illustrates this argument by comparing marches by undocumented migrants in three countries: France, Germany and Canada-Quebec. Through an in-depth analysis, we demonstrate that these marches redefine the legal order and politicize the presence of undocumented migrants in the public sphere. By highlighting the cognitive, emotional and relational dimensions of collective actions, we show that the symbolic dimension of these three marches relates to the empowerment, pride and solidarity of undocumented migrants.

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“…Borders function as filters, they can no longer be regarded as lines that some are allowed to cross and others not (cf. FischerLescano & Tohidipur 2007; Buckel & Wissel 2010;Laube 2010). Secondly, migration opens up a space that extends somewhere between the discourse clouds and the tube tunnels of politics -the every-day social space of migration.…”

Section: Mapping Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe, Blurred: Migration, Margins and the Museum

Poehls

2011

Cult. Unbound

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More and more museums all over Europe are discovering migration as a topic for exhibitions. These exhibitions on migration question notions of objectivity or of European universalism. This article looks at a broad range of recent exhibitions and museums that address the topic of migration. Taking into consideration their varying scope and institutional context, this text argues that exhibitions on migration tell several stories at once: Firstly, they present stories of migration in a certain city, region or nation, and within a particular period of time. For this purpose, curators make extensive use of maps -with the peculiar effect that these maps blur what seems to be the clear-cut entity of reference of the museum itself or the exhibition. To a stronger degree than other phenomena that turn into museal topics, 'migration' unveils the constructed character of geographic or political entities such as the nation or the European Union. It shows how, hidden below the norm of settledness, mobilities are and have always been omnipresent in and fundamental for European societies. Secondly and related to this, exhibitions on migration add a new chapter to the meta-narrative of museums: implicitly, they challenge the relevance of the nation -specifically, of both the historical idea that initiated the invention of the public museum (cf. e.g. Bennett 1999) and the political fundament of European integration today. They provoke questions of settledness, citizenship, or contemporary globalisation phenomena that are equally implicitly put on display. The consequent effect is a blurring of the concept of the nationstate. Finally, migration as a museal topic conveys a view on how the institution of the 'museum' relates to such a fuzzy thing as mobility, thus provoking questions for further research.

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State Project Europe: The Transformation of the European Border Regime and the Production of Bare Life

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Editorial - Gendered Fortress Europe

Editorial - Gendered Fortress Europe

Comparing the protests of undocumented migrants beyond contexts: collective actions as acts of emancipation

Europe, Blurred: Migration, Margins and the Museum

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