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Mediated Bordering: Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
[phd thesis]
Abstract The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. The author engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, p... view more
The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. The author engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat mediate a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of viapolitics.... view less
Keywords
EU; border protection; surveillance; illegal immigration; flight; refugee; immigration policy; asylum policy; EU policy
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
European Politics
Free Keywords
Border Studies; Border Surveillance and Control; EU Border and Immigration Policies; European Politics; Fleeing; Mediterranean Sea; Migration Policy; Refugee Boat; Refugee Studies; Sailing Tall Ship; Schengen Process
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
317 p.
Series
Edition Politik, 77
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447536
ISBN
978-3-8394-4753-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0