Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature

Schindel, Estela

doi:10.1080/08865655.2016.1174604

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“…Bringing this space closer means 'to generate a more human and embodied understanding of this liquid terrain', as opposed to further abstracting it with numbers (ibid: 20). Indeed, this also challenges the tendency, pointed out by some, to 'naturalize' border deaths or to present them as caused by the natural environment such as the sea or weather conditions Schindel 2016).…”

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Border Deaths

Sinatti¹,

Vos²

2019

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This book is an outcome of the conference, Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches, that took place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 14-15 June 2018 and involved over 100 participants, many of whom went on to (co-)author the chapters herein. The conference was organised by Thomas Spijkerboer and Paolo Cuttitta as part of the research project, Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants, hosted by the Amsterdam Centre

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Border Deaths

Sinatti¹,

Vos²

2019

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“…10 Control and surveillance technologies push 'unwanted travellers' , perceived as 'intruders' and as a 'biological threat' , as part of 'an ahistorical and apolitical phenomenon' , into more and more dangerous routes, whereby death is not 'produced by assassination, but by abandonment to the elements' . 11 Thus all these numbers can only account for the dead that are found: they are not representative of the total number of deaths at sea or in the desert, in the mountain ranges or water channels turned into deterrent, lethal landscapes. Not to mention the deaths of undocumented persons who are underpaid to undertake riskier work than is legally allowed, with no personal or social security, whose bodies are also o en disposed of anonymously and uncounted.…”

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The clandestine cemetery

Zagaria¹

2019

Human Remains and Violence

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The Mediterranean Sea has recently become the deadliest of borders for illegalised travellers. The victims of the European Union’s liquid border are also found near North African shores. The question of how and where to bury these unknown persons has recently come to the fore in Zarzis, a coastal town in south-east Tunisia. Everyone involved in these burials – the coastguards, doctors, Red Crescent volunteers, municipality employees – agree that what they are doing is ‘wrong’. It is neither dignified nor respectful to the dead, as the land used as a cemetery is an old waste dump, and customary attitudes towards the dead are difficult to realise. This article will first trace how this situation developed, despite the psychological discomfort of all those affected. It will then explore how the work of care and dignity emerges within this institutional chain, and what this may tell us about what constitutes the concept of the human.

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“…This approach sits well with existing scholarship on EU border deaths that, inspired by Foucauldian readings of biopolitics, has examined the policies and practices that lead to a form of government through death (Rygiel, 2016; Squire, 2016; Topak, 2014). It also connects productively with analyses of border deaths as a form of structural violence (Weber & Pickering, 2011), as “crimes of peace” (Albahari, 2015), and with the scholarship interested in exploring the entanglement between technologies and migrants’ exposure to “nature” (Schindel, 2016). The choice to focus on a dead body here is also influenced by the literature on contestation over border deaths that take place through grieving (Stierl, 2016) or memorial (Zagaria, 2016) practices.…”

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Who Cares About Ouacil? The Postmortem Itinerary of a Young Border Crosser

Kobelinsky

2019

American Behavioral Scientist

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On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in May 2015, two young women walking by a lighthouse in Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the northern shores of Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, found the lifeless body of a young man. As the police quickly soon confirmed, the boy had died while trying to jump on a ferry that would take him “to the real Europe” (i.e., the Iberian Peninsula). Using ethnography, this article aims at mapping the afterlives of this dead young man, in their multiple dimensions. It traces the body’s trajectory through the judicial system and bureaucratic registration; it investigates attempts made by various agencies at identifying the corpse and carrying it to its final destination; finally, it analyzes the efforts made to pay him tribute. By tracing the dead boy’s itinerary, this article sheds light on the conflictual interactions between different actors (state and municipal institutions, civil society groups, and migrants themselves) involved in the treatment of deaths at the borders.

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Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature

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