Teichopolitics: Re-considering Globalisation Through the Role of Walls and Fences

Rosière, Stéphane; Jones, Reece

doi:10.1080/14650045.2011.574653

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“…Also, pertinent to this discussion is the 12-km fence that the Greek government finally built along the land border of the Evros/Meriç River. The fence can be interpreted through the prism of a growing literature on the nexus of globalization, migration and sovereignty which examines the ways walls and barriers serve as bastions of Westphalian conceptions of the nation (Brown 2010;Rosière and Jones 2012). According to this approach, the fence falls within the symbolic sphere of sovereignty, a material expression of the view that the state can and should control the frontiers of the nation and 'Europe' to the detriment of unwanted foreigners.…”

Section: Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 97%

Sticks, not carrots: immigration and rights in Greece and Turkey

Tsitselikis

2013

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This piece critically examines migration policies in Greece and Turkey with an emphasis on the Greek experience. It examines four thematic areas which shape the migration debates: social change, citizenship, rights and sovereignty. It then turns to the case law of the European Court of Human Rights to assess the main challenges associated with migrants' rights: free trial, deprivation of liberty and conditions and procedures of detention and extradition. Honing in upon the case of Muslim migrants in Greece, it charts patterns of solidarity and exclusion. Exploring the impact of the Greek crisis on immigration, it highlights the securitization of public discourse on migrants and the rise of xenophobic political factions. The article concludes by suggesting that there are underexplored areas in which Greece and Turkey could cooperate when it comes to immigration and ensuring migrants' rights.

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Section: Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 97%

Sticks, not carrots: immigration and rights in Greece and Turkey

Tsitselikis

2013

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…The transnational economy and global cultural influences have eroded the role of national borders as containers (Kaplan and Hakli ). Yet, the contemporary world has experienced an increase in the enclosure of territory among states with the construction of walls and fences (Rosière and Jones ). Geographers study changes in border landscapes through an evaluation of cultural, economic, and political interactions that influence the cooperation in borderlands (Popescu ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Landscapes on theEUPeriphery: Examples of Integration and Division between Polish and Ukrainian Cities

Brym¹

2013

Focus on Geography

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“…While borders are often increasingly concrete barriers (Rosière and Jones, 2012), the securitization of 'bounded' state spaces occurs ever more in global space through bordercrossings: in the name of security, border control and management stretch across borders. This is particularly prominent in the case of some powerful states.…”

Section: Mobile and Nonmobile Bordersmentioning

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Border Studies Reanimated: Going beyond the Territorial/Relational Divide

Paasi

2012

Environ Plan A

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Border studies reanimated: going beyond the territorial/relational divide 'Border' has been a key category for social scientists since the 19th century when modern state-building and nation-building processes began to intensify in Europe. It is well known how Friedrich Ratzel, for example, stressed the importance of borders for 'political balance'. A lesser known pioneer in border studies is the famous sociologist Georg Simmel, for whom "the boundary is not a spatial fact with sociological consequences, but a sociological fact that forms itself spatially" (1997, page 142). He discussed the roles of borders in social life and for consciousness, and concluded: "By virtue of the fact that we have boundaries everywhere and always, so accordingly we are boundaries" (cited in Ethington, 2007, page 480). Tester (1993, page 9) condensed Simmel's ideas as follows:" The boundaries make life meaningful … but the very meaningfulness of life as something with a location and most signifi cantly a direction (i.e. life going as somewhere other than here), implies the fl ow of life over permanent boundaries." It is a sort of a paradox that the 'border' quickly became a catchword 100 years later, simultaneously when the ideas of cosmopolitanism and the postnational/denationalized world as well as the neoliberal rhetoric on a 'borderless world' appeared on the agenda. New interest was aroused after the implosion of the ideological line between the capitalist and socialist world at the turn of the 1990s, an event that gave rise to both new ethnonational borders and ethnic violence. New attention also reverberated with 'weak' and 'strong' views on globalization (Paasi, 2003). More than any other event, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA and the consequent 'war on terror' generated security-related border research in which biopolitics, circulation, and technologies became key issues (Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero, 2008). Indeed, if Simmel once stated that "people are boundaries", scholars are increasingly noting how people become borders (Balibar, 1998) and how human bodies are key sites of borders in the current, biometrically managed world (Amoore, 2006). This commentary will problematize the concept of border in a situation in which the social and political meanings of borders have been rethought in academia as well as in the context of securitization of state and suprastate (like the EU) spaces, and in which bounded spaces still have a role to play in the mobilization of emotions, racism, xenophobia, and, ultimately, violence. While only two of the world's total twenty-nine major armed confl icts during 2001-10 have been interstate (SIPRI, 2011), a remarkable hardening of state borders has simultaneously occurred around the world (Rosière and Jones, 2012). I will fi rst look at how the understanding of borders has evolved and how relational thinking contests traditional border studies. Secondly, I will take some conceptual steps towards a broader understanding of state borders that highlights both their porous and not-so-open qualit...

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Teichopolitics: Re-considering Globalisation Through the Role of Walls and Fences

Cited by 110 publications

References 7 publications

Sticks, not carrots: immigration and rights in Greece and Turkey

Sticks, not carrots: immigration and rights in Greece and Turkey

Border Landscapes on theEUPeriphery: Examples of Integration and Division between Polish and Ukrainian Cities

Border Studies Reanimated: Going beyond the Territorial/Relational Divide

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