EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management [electronic resource] : Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives /
Gaibazzi, Paolo.editor.
Dünnwald, Stephan.editor.
Bellagamba, Alice.editor.
This volume traces the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border. While the Mediterranean Sea has become the main stage for the current play and tragedy between European borders and African migrants, Europe’s southern border has also been “offshored” to Africa, mainly through cooperation agreements with countries of transit and origin. By bringing into conversation case studies from different countries and disciplines, this volume seeks to open a window on the backstage of this externalization of borders. It casts light on the sites – from consulates to open seas and deserts – in which Europe’s southern border is made and unmade as an African reality, yielding what the editors call "EurAfrican borders." It further describes the multiple actors – state agents, migrants, smugglers, activists, etc. – that variously imagine, construct, cross or contest these borders, and situates their encounters within the history of uneven exchanges between Africa and Europe. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction: An Afro-Europeanist Perspective on EurAfrican Borders (Gaibazzi, Bellagamba, Dünnwald)  -- Ch 1: Effective Protection or Effective Combat? EU Border Control and North Africa (Lemberg-Pedersen)  -- Ch 2: The Tensions of the Ceuta and Melilla Border Fences (Pallister-Wilkins)  -- Ch 3: Bamako, Outpost of the European Border Regime? (Dünnwald)  -- Ch 4: Deportation Ghettoes in Mali: Expelled Migrants between State Exclusion and Self-Organization (Lecadet)  -- Ch 5: Policies, Practices, and Representations regarding Sub-Saharan Migrants in Libya: From the Partnership with Italy to the Post-Qadhafi Era (Morone)  -- Ch 6: Visa Filtering at the Italian Consulate in Senegal (Zampagni)  -- Ch 7: Marriage at the Embassy: Securing the EurAfrican Border in Cameroon (Alpes)  -- Ch 8: Frontiers of Exodus: Activists, Border Regimes and Euro-Mediterranean Encounters after the Arab Spring (Gaibazzi)  -- Ch 9: Maritime Migration from Senegal to Spain: Fishermen's Experiences (Hallaire)  -- Ch 10: Reshaping ‘Frontiers of Violence’ from Europe to the Middle East: Abduction, Human Trafficking, and Death along the Horn of Africa Migration Route to Israel (Lijnders)  -- Ch 11: Suspended Lives: Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Worlds and the Making of ‘Illegality’ Between Morocco and Italy (Menin)  -- Epilogue (Coplan).
This volume traces the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border. While the Mediterranean Sea has become the main stage for the current play and tragedy between European borders and African migrants, Europe’s southern border has also been “offshored” to Africa, mainly through cooperation agreements with countries of transit and origin. By bringing into conversation case studies from different countries and disciplines, this volume seeks to open a window on the backstage of this externalization of borders. It casts light on the sites – from consulates to open seas and deserts – in which Europe’s southern border is made and unmade as an African reality, yielding what the editors call "EurAfrican borders." It further describes the multiple actors – state agents, migrants, smugglers, activists, etc. – that variously imagine, construct, cross or contest these borders, and situates their encounters within the history of uneven exchanges between Africa and Europe. .
Africa—Politics and government.
Europe—Politics and government.
International relations.
Emigration and immigration.
Political sociology.
Human geography.
African Politics.
European Politics.
Foreign Policy.
Migration.
Political Sociology.
Human Geography.