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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476925303321

Autore

Ellebrecht Sabrina <p>Sabrina Ellebrecht, Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Kriminalit&auml; t, Sicherheit und Recht, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Mediated Bordering : Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border / Sabrina Ellebrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

9783839447536

3839447534

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Edition Politik

Disciplina

325.21094

Soggetti

Border Studies

EU Border and Immigration Policies

Border Surveillance and Control

Schengen Process

Mediterranean Sea

Sailing Tall Ship

Refugees

Refugee Boat

Europe

Fleeing

Migration

European Politics

Migration Policy

Refugee Studies

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Table of content    5 Foreword    7 1. Introduction    9 2. European Spaces - Schengen Borders?    23 3. Thinking and Researching Political Borders    63 Introduction    81 4. "EUROSUR on the Screen"    85 5. EUROSUR on Paper - in the Official Journal of the EU    127 6. EUROSUR: IT's Mediation    183 Introduction    191 7. Site



Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration    193 8. Seaborne Migration: Europe's Boat-Migrants and their Refugee Vessels    211 9. Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies    257 10. The Emergence of Viapolitics    283 Bibliography    291

Sommario/riassunto

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht 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.

Besprochen in:InfoDienst Migration, 3 (2020)