The Post-2015 European Border Regime. New Approaches in a Shifting Field

Heß, Sabine; Kasparek, Bernd

doi:10.4000/aam.1812

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“…The countervisuality of such videos represents the desire for a world in which the currently dominant meaning and function of borders is overturned. Depicting the Mediterranean Sea or the shores of Europe as permeable borders seems irreconcilable with the harsh reality of ever stricter European border regimes that have become more or less a "state of exception" since 2015 (Hess and Kasparek, 2019). Border policies, despite the EU's much-celebrated political ideal of freedom of movement, are designed to prevent and control the movement of certain migrants across the EU's external borders (Karamanidou and Kasparek, 2018) as well as its internal ones (European Commission, 2020).…”

Section: Undoing Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such anti-immigration policies and measures have left thousands of people with no alternative than to cross the Mediterranean Sea by boat. Over time, border regimes have gained complexity: external countries such as Turkey and Tunisia have become the outer posts of European border control in a process described by scholars as the “externalization” of borders (Hess and Kasparek, 2019).…”

Section: Undoing Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

Bayramoğlu

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores how smartphone videos produced by migrants during border crossings challenge Eurocentric visualizations of borders. Implementing video analysis and iconographic interpretation, I explore three interrelated aspects of the smartphone videos: (1) By circulating videos via digital platforms, migrants create a countervisuality of border crossing that destabilizes the visual politics that shape current border regimes. (2) Unlike journalistic, humanitarian, or surveillance-oriented visual images produced from above, from a safe distance, from rescue or patrol ships, migrants’ smartphone footage puts their own narratives at the center of visualization. (3) Whereas Eurocentric visualizations of migration and borders aim to elicit affects and emotions such as pity, empathy, fear, or panic, migrants’ smartphone videos depict emotions such as joy and happiness after successful border crossings. These affective visualizations of individual migration stories confound binary representations of migrants as either victims or invaders. I argue that the shaky smartphone videos with their wandering focus and disordered mode of vision create a productive vantage point for seeing and sensing a world that is unimaginable for the normative, focused lens that structures views projected by journalism, humanitarian appeals, political mobilization, and surveillance technologies.

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Section: Undoing Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Undoing Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

Bayramoğlu

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Research on border regimes, especially in the European context, emphasizes the complexity of border and migration control as well as the international context and the cooperation with neighboring states (Heimeshoff et al 2014;Hess and Kasparek 2019). Moreover, the agency and the strategies of migrants are highlighted: state border and migration policy always needs to be understood as a reaction to migratory movements (Hess 2016(Hess , 2017De Genova 2017).…”

Section: Rethinking the Line: Research On Borders And Re-borderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Who Is the Animal in the Zoo?” Fencing In and Fencing Out at the Hungarian-Serbian Border. A Qualitative Case Study

Korte

2020

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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In 2015, Hungary commenced the building of a fence at its border with Serbia. The current article investigates the Hungarian-Serbian border fence in terms of its meaning in the two countries. Building on recent re-bordering research, it analyzes the context within which the fencing took place, stressing both the domestic and the international dimension. Based on qualitative interviews and a document analysis for Hungary and Serbia, it argues that the fence did not create a conflict between the two neighborsinstead, the international entanglement of the border led to a complex bordering process that extended bilateral relations. In Hungary, the border fortification was used for internal political motives and at the same time aimed to exclude non-European migrants. Due to political circumstances and the filter function of the fence, the Serbian government likewise managed to exploit the border fortification to its advantage. The article introduces the concept of "fencing in and fencing out" in order to analyze the control function that the fence performs on both sides of the border.

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“…In 2015 and 2016 about 1 million asylum applications were registered by the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) (BMI, 2016). After that, the number of people seeking refuge dropped -not least due to restrictive European asylum policies (Hess and Kasparek, 2019) -and are currently rising again, mostly due to the war in Ukraine. In 2015 and the following years, huge deficiencies on many levels of politics and administration were exposed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructures in the context of arrival – multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany

El-Kayed,

Keskinkılıc

2023

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Recent debates on arrival cities, neighborhoods, or other scales of local contexts tend to focus on aspects of local areas which support new migrants in accessing resources such as social networks, organizations, and other kinds of local infrastructure that give access to (multilingual) information, housing options, first jobs, or a sense of belonging and conviviality. These features are often concentrated in long-standing immigrant neighborhoods. In this contribution, we compare different kinds of local infrastructure in two German local contexts – in an established immigrant neighborhood and a rather new immigrant neighborhood – and how they have shaped the arrival of refugees who have come to Germany since 2014/15. We emphasize the need to understand infrastructures and the way they shape arrival, first, in a multidimensional way that, second, comprises inclusive as well as exclusive aspects of local infrastructures. This, third, includes the need to specify for which category of people infrastructures work in an inclusive or exclusive way as they work differently along a range of social boundaries.

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The Post-2015 European Border Regime. New Approaches in a Shifting Field

Cited by 17 publications

References 72 publications

Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration

“Who Is the Animal in the Zoo?” Fencing In and Fencing Out at the Hungarian-Serbian Border. A Qualitative Case Study

Infrastructures in the context of arrival – multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany

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