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

Sabrina Ellebrecht

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Mediated Bordering

Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border

Sabrina Ellebrecht
Funded by: transcript: Open Library 2019 (Politik)

Volume 77 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839447536

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About this book

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 catalyze and craft 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'.

Author / Editor information

Sabrina Ellebrecht, born in 1980, is a researcher at the Centre for Security and Society at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She specializes in the field of border studies, EU migration and border control policies, and critical security studies. In 2013, the sociologist was a visiting scholar at the DFG-Research Training Group "Topology of Technology" at the TU Darmstadt.

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InfoDienst Migration, 3 (2020)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of content Open Access Download PDF	5
Foreword Open Access Download PDF	7
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	9
PART I: MEDIATED BORDERING. THINKING AND RESEARCHING POLITICAL BORDERS
2. European Spaces – Schengen Borders? Open Access Download PDF	23
3. Thinking and Researching Political Borders Open Access Download PDF	63
PART II: EUROSUR – THE EUROPEAN BORDER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	81
4. “EUROSUR on the Screen” Open Access Download PDF	85
5. EUROSUR on Paper – in the Official Journal of the EU Open Access Download PDF	127
6. EUROSUR: IT’s Mediation Open Access Download PDF	183
PART III: THE REFUGEE BOAT – VEHICLE, MOVING TARGET, INTEGRATING FIGURE OF EU BORDERING
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	191
7. Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration Open Access Download PDF	193
8. Seaborne Migration: Europe’s Boat-Migrants and their Refugee Vessels Open Access Download PDF	211
9. Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies Open Access Download PDF	257
10. The Emergence of Viapolitics Open Access Download PDF	283
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	291

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: 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

eBook

Published: March 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839447536