EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management: Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives

✍ Scribed by Paolo Gaibazzi, Stephan Dünnwald, Alice Bellagamba (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Series: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: An Afro-Europeanist Perspective on EurAfrican Borders....Pages 3-28
Effective Protection or Effective Combat? EU Border Control and North Africa....Pages 29-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Tensions of the Ceuta and Melilla Border Fences....Pages 63-81
Bamako, Outpost of the European Border Regime?....Pages 83-107
Deportation Ghettoes in Mali: Expelled Migrants Between State Exclusion and Self-Organization....Pages 109-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Policies, Practices, and Representations Regarding Sub-Saharan Migrants in Libya: From the Partnership with Italy to the Post-Qadhafi Era....Pages 129-155
The Making of the Schengen Regime: Visa Filtering at the Italian Consulate in Senegal....Pages 157-180
Marriage at the Embassy: Securing the EurAfrican Border in Cameroon....Pages 181-195
Frontiers of Exodus: Activists, Border Regimes and Euro-Mediterranean Encounters After the Arab Spring....Pages 197-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Maritime Migration from Senegal to Spain: Fishermen’s Experiences....Pages 221-241
Reshaping ‘Frontiers of Violence’ from Europe to the Middle East: Abduction, Human Trafficking and Death Along the Horn of Africa Migration Route to Israel....Pages 243-262
Suspended Lives: Undocumented Migrants’ Everyday Worlds and the Making of ‘Illegality’ Between Morocco and Italy....Pages 263-282
Epilogue....Pages 283-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-302

✦ Subjects

African Politics;European Politics;Foreign Policy;Migration;Political Sociology;Human Geography