Biopolitical Violence and Waiting: Hotspot as a Biopolitical Borderzone

Topak, Özgün E.

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“…As we have shown, while waiting to access safety and permanent legal status in Europe, UMs are exposed to violence and abuse. In general, securitized migration policies induce a form of hyper-precariousness (Lewis et al, 2015) on UMs, hindering their protection by making them more vulnerable to violence, particularly the case when they have to interact with actors of the so-called "migration industry" in key "borderzones" (Topak, 2020).…”

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Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

Orsini

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Uzureau

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Studies have reported alarmingly high rates of traumatic experiences for refugee populations. While nearly all refugees experienced trauma in their country of origin, a vast majority of those seeking protection abroad also face (extreme) violence during their journeys and once in the country of destination. By concentrating on the migratory experiences of about 300 unaccompanied minors that we approached in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium, this article analyses how different forms of violence are inflicted on these young migrants while moving to Europe. By concentrating on personal accounts of (recurrent) interactions with the EU migration and border management tools, we reveal the structural violence within the day-to-day governance of migration. Often framed as unintended or accidental, the article discusses how violence is instead ubiquitous, as it is systematically inflicted on migrants—including unaccompanied minors—in the form of repeated series of violent events or “loops of violence.” Importantly, such manifestations of violence are perpetrated by key institutional and non-institutional actors in the “migration industry” who are (in)directly involved in managing migration both inside and outside of the EU. Conceptually, we rely on K. E. Dempsey’s political geography of the different typologies of violence within Europe’s governance of migration and asylum and use it to concentrate on key transitional phases/fractures in migratory trajectories—i.e., as unaccompanied young migrants (try to) cross international borders and legal boundaries.

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“…"Waiting [is] a central category through which the biopolitical border operates," says Topak (2020Topak ( , 1873, who has carried out fieldwork in Moria. But waithood in the camp has an additional effect: it devalued border-crossers' time and thus their worth as workers, even when they are allowed to join the workforce (Khosravi 2021a, 204).…”

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Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?

Hamilakis

2022

American Anthropologist

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“…My interlocutors' experiences were often defined by their tiredness of running away and an extreme instability over a long period of time. Several of them displayed signs of depression and talked about previous suicide attempts or mentioned suicidal ideations (see also Bhatia, 2020;Topak, 2020). Both Jamal and Walid were hospitalised in psychiatric clinics.…”

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Navigating the European Migration Regime

Wyss

2022

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This inaugural dissertation was submitted by Anna Wyss in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor rerum socialium at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern. The faculty accepted this work as dissertation on 23 May 2019 at the request of the two advisors Prof. Dr Christian Joppke and Prof. Dr Janine Dahinden, without wishing to take a position on the view. The dissertation has been re-written and developed for the purpose of this monograph.The open access version of this publication was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.vii Contents Series Preface viii viii Series Preface: The Unwanted of the European Migration RegimeAnna Wyss' Navigating the European Migration Regime offers a compelling account of the hopes, aspirations and daily challenges that young, single, male migrants, perhaps the most ostracised cohort among the immigrant population in Europe, face in Europe. Through a fine-textured ethnography that follows the journeys of migrants across various European countries in their interaction with the law, bureaucratic and police apparatuses, and rampant anti-immigration rhetoric, the book constructs a complex portrait of multi-sited and asymmetrical border struggles, in which young migrants are confronted with a system designed to exclude them and grind down their resistance. While central, migrant agency in Wyss' book is not romanticised. Instead, Wyss captures the encounter between migrants' agency and the working of migration regimes and how, faced with migrants' attempts to legalise their position, create better opportunities for themselves, and simply avoid immigration control and detection, states react by installing new measures attempting to turn migrants' endurance into exhaustion. These measures, Wyss argues, may not succeed in their goal of controlling human movement and combatting irregular migration, but they certainly contribute to reproducing and reinforcing racialised and classed structures of oppression, exploitation and inequality.We are delighted to add Navigating the European Migration Regime to our series. Drawing on an in-depth examination of migrant journeys across Europe, the book returns from a novel perspective to core concerns in the Global Migration and Social Change series: the encounter between states and their migration regimes, in their multiple permutations, and migrants; the racialised, gendered and classed impact of borders and bordering; and the spaces for a politics of hope centred on migrant agency and solidarity across communities.

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Biopolitical Violence and Waiting: Hotspot as a Biopolitical Borderzone

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium

Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?

Navigating the European Migration Regime

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