New Borders: Migration, Hotspots and the European Superstate

by Antonis Vradis, Evie Papada, Joe Painter, Anna Papoutsi

Overview

New Borders is the culmination of two years of research on the Mediterranean migration crisis of 2015-16. The book focuses on Lesbos, a Greek island that came under intense media and political scrutiny as more than one million people crossed its borders, changing and remaking life there. When these migrants—more than ten times the island’s earlier population—landed on Lesbos’s shores, local authorities were dismantled and replaced by supranational law and authority. In the ensuing months, reception turned to detention, rescue to registration, and refuge to duress.
            As borders across Europe have come to symbolize the European Union, this book provides answers to questions of European policy, the securitization of national boundaries, and how legislation determines who is free to belong to a place.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745338453
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	12/15/2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Joe Painter is professor of geography at Durham University and the author, most recently, of Spatial Politics. Evie Papada is a PhD candidate in geography at Loughborough University. Anna Papoutsi is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. Antonis Vradis is lecturer and Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Loughborough University.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. The ""Where"" and ""When of Migration"" 2. Refuge, Rules and Rights 3. Governing Mobility 4. The Camps 5. The Sea is on Fire

Editorial Reviews

"This book offers a powerful take on the human consequences of bordering Europe. In shifting the reader's gaze from migrants themselves to the EU roll-out of unprecedented migration controls it builds a distressing picture of a perennial political 'migration emergency'... a text fit for our times, speaking back to the dangerous political common-sense in a forceful collective voice: an urgent read."

Ruben Andersson

'A significant contribution to the study of migration that challenges many of our assumptions about where borders are, how they work, and ultimately who is allowed to move' Reece Jones, University of Hawaii, author of 'Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move' , 'This book offers a powerful take on the human consequences of bordering Europe. In shifting the reader's gaze from migrants themselves to the EU roll-out of unprecedented migration controls it builds a distressing picture of a perennial political 'migration emergency'... a text fit for our times, speaking back to the dangerous political common-sense in a forceful collective voice: an urgent read' Ruben Andersson, author of Illegality Inc.,: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe, ,

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