De Genova, Nicholas. 2017. The borders of “Europe”. Autonomy of migration, tactics of bordering. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 376 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9780822369165.

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“…Similar to proponents of the autonomy of migration approach (Moulier Boutang, 2007;Papadopoulos et al, 2008;De Genova, 2017b), I took migrants' practices and their border struggles as starting points from which to investigate and theorise the migration regime as well as to consider how migrants' actions force the control apparatus to constantly adapt, transform and reorganise itself (Scheel, 2019). But I have refrained from depicting migrants' resistance to migration control practices as heroic as this would underestimate the disempowering and violent effects of migration and border control on marginalised individuals.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…I show that the European migration regime, in fact, ensures the prolongation of migrants' journeys, which migrants experience as highly exhausting. This also challenges the common representation of Europe as a safe haven and as the upholder of human rights (De Genova, 2017b) and sheds light on the fact that journeys not only to Europe but also within Europe can be dangerous.…”

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“…This was one of the driving factors which led migration scholars to build on the regime concept as it encourages the consideration of migrants' agency as a co-constitutive and disruptive aspect. State power to control, filter and deter politically unwanted migratory movement is always incomplete for different reasons: law implementation fails to accomplish its policy goals (Hollifield, 1986); states' sovereign power to halt 'unwanted migration' is limited by their own legal frameworks (Joppke, 1998); a prospering 'illegality industry' has its economic profits ; and there are autonomous aspects of migration (Tsianos and Karakayali, 2010;De Genova, 2017b).…”

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“…Critical border and migration scholars have subsumed the creative force and transformative power of migration as 'autonomy of migration', presuming that the movement of people always precedes the movement of capital and state control (Bojadžijev and Karakayalı, 2007;Moulier Boutang, 2007: 169f;Papadopoulos et al, 2008;Mezzadra, 2011;De Genova, 2017b). Papadopoulous and Tsianos (2013: 184), for instance, write that 'migration is autonomous, meaning that it has the capacity to develop its own logics, its own motivation, its own trajectories that control comes later to respond to, not the other way round'.…”

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Navigating the European Migration Regime

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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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2022

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“…By the end of 2015, Europe was gripped by a remarkable Stimmungswechsel (mood swing) that fundamentally tipped public sentiments from xenophilia to xenophobia (Borneman & Ghassem-Fachandi, 2017). The brief period of openness marking Europe's approach to asylum seekers was quickly corrected through the introduction of harsh, deeply exclusionary measures aimed at re-establishing the impenetrability of fortress Europe (De Genova, 2017). Austria played a crucial role in this backlash against the open-door policy and the establishment of a 'politics of fear' (Wodak, 2015) that fostered the normalization of nationalistic and xenophobic sentiments across Europe.…”

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Cultures of unwelcome: Understanding the everyday histories of exclusionary practices – A view from across the German border

Lems

2022

International Migration

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This article sheds light on the socio‐cultural dynamics Merkel's open‐door policy set in motion in Austria. Based on the Anti‐Merkel discourses that came to infiltrate Austrian mainstream politics, it will show how the summer of displacements 2015 led to a pronounced move to the right. While many commentators have tended to link the post‐2015 triumph of reactionary parties to the sense of crisis caused by the few months the European Union opened its borders to asylum seekers, the article demonstrates that we need to be more careful in our analyses of the roots of exclusion. By zooming in on the everydayness of anti‐cosmopolitan practices in an Austrian mountain community, it argues that if we are to understand the current backlash against liberal and cosmopolitan ideas we need to pay attention to genealogies of exclusionary practices, or ‘cultures of unwelcome’.

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Constraints and Transgressions in Journeys of Displacement

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Belloni

2020

The Handbook of Displacement

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De Genova, Nicholas. 2017. The borders of “Europe”. Autonomy of migration, tactics of bordering. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 376 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9780822369165.

Cited by 8 publications

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Navigating the European Migration Regime

Navigating the European Migration Regime

Cultures of unwelcome: Understanding the everyday histories of exclusionary practices – A view from across the German border

Constraints and Transgressions in Journeys of Displacement

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