Situating Border Control: Unpacking Spain's SIVE border surveillance assemblage

Atmospheric Border Politics: The Morphology of Migration and Solidarity Practices in Europe

“…There can be little doubt that a growing recognition for the constitutive role of the materiality of migration practices and border control technologies represents a key development in the area of borders and migration research. A large literature has come to highlight themes of technological borders, technopolitics, and assemblages; many studies examine the work of particular technologiesfrom drones to scanners, from humble devices like the file to the architecture of crossing areasin the ambitions of political authorities to identify, follow, sort, welcome, and shun with regard to human flows of population (Dijstelbloem and Broeders 2014;Fisher 2018;Jeandesboz 2016;Scheel 2013). While respecting the important accomplishments of this work this paper argues for bringing a concern with atmosphere into this debate.…”

Ripensare l'esternalizzazione. Per una critica dell'euro-centrismo e dello stato-centrismo negli studi su migrazioni e confini

“…O ancora il concetto di assemblaggio (Nail, 2017). Derivato da Deleuze e Guattari (1980), 2 tale concetto è stato ripreso dalla letteratura sulla globalizzazione (Collier e Ong, 2005;Sassen, 2006) e applicato anche ai migration and border studies, per lo più con riferimento agli assemblaggi di controllo (Allen e Vollmer, 2017;Casas-Cortés e Cobarrubias, 2019;Fisher, 2018), intesi come il risultato contingente della mutevole interazione tra diversi attori, territori e dispositivi, che si sviluppa in modo non necessariamente coerente e in assenza di un centro di coordinamento o direzione unitario. Complementare ai precedenti è infine il concetto di matrice bourdieusiana di 'campo', esemplificato dai transnational social fields di Levitt e Glick Schiller ( 2004) o dagli champs dei professionisti della gestione dell'insicurezza di Bigo (2005).…”

Political geography III: Bounding the International

“…Conceptually, the research illuminates the construction of state sovereignty through the practices that operate in its name (Beurskens and Miggelbrink, 2017; Gilbert, 2018; Jones et al, 2017). It documents state investment in surveillance and the efforts to manage borders through preventive illegitimization and rapid processing (Fisher, 2018; Gorman, 2017; Jones, 2016; Makarychev, 2018; Pötzsch, 2015; Tazzioli, 2018; Watkins, 2017). This work has yielded new theorizations of the border, through the concepts of corridors, camps, and spaces of confinement.…”