Alpine Border Conflicts

Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

AvCecilia Vergnano

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change

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Beskrivning

Few places are more revealing than the Alps to grasp the uneven EU core-periphery dynamics intrinsic to the EU border regime. In 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders, as a response to asylum seekers’ mobility, gave rise to a series of conflicts, contradictions and solidarities which this book explores. The ethnographic analysis of the everyday life of the French/Italian and Austrian/Italian borders makes visible the impacts of governance strategies which promote social polarization to contain potentially subversive moments of disruptions and transgressions. By contextualizing the governance of borders and migration in a broader framework, which includes the governance of EU states’ debt, Alpine Border Conflicts focuses on the effects of border regimes not only on migrants but also on EU societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-09
Mått:156 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666922134

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Cecilia Vergnano is social anthropologist and is FWO senior postdoctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, member of the Observatorio de Antropologia del Conflicto Urbano (University of Barcelona) and the Observatoire des Migrations des Alpes Maritimes (University of Nice).

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This deeply researched and beautifully written book turns the spotlight onto the violence faced by racialised life seekers as they encounter and traverse Alpine borderscapes and asks the important question of what these experiences tell us about and mean for European society.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsForeword by Maurice StierlForeword by Silvia AruAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The CrisisChapter 2: A Step Back: BreachesChapter 3: Redressive ActionsChapter 4: The Racialized Divide Among Border-crossing FacilitatorsChapter 5: The Breach within the Social Basis of the LeftConclusionAbout the Author