Mediated Bordering
Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Table of content
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Foreword
Seiten 7 - 8 -
1. Introduction
Seiten 9 - 20 -
PART I: MEDIATED BORDERING. THINKING AND RESEARCHING POLITICAL BORDERS
2. European Spaces – Schengen Borders?
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3. Thinking and Researching Political Borders
Seiten 63 - 78 -
PART II: EUROSUR – THE EUROPEAN BORDER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Introduction
Seiten 81 - 84 -
4. "EUROSUR on the Screen"
Seiten 85 - 126 -
5. EUROSUR on Paper – in the Official Journal of the EU
Seiten 127 - 182 -
6. EUROSUR: IT's Mediation
Seiten 183 - 188 -
PART III: THE REFUGEE BOAT – VEHICLE, MOVING TARGET, INTEGRATING FIGURE OF EU BORDERING
Introduction
Seiten 191 - 192 -
7. Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration
Seiten 193 - 210 -
8. Seaborne Migration: Europe's Boat-Migrants and their Refugee Vessels
Seiten 211 - 256 -
9. Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies
Seiten 257 - 282 -
10. The Emergence of Viapolitics
Seiten 283 - 290 -
Bibliography
Seiten 291 - 320
30 March 2020, 320 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4753-2
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