Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe

Joost de Bloois is assistant professor in the departments of Cultural Analysis and Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the nexus between contemporary culture and politics. He has co-authored two introductions in Cultural Studies (2009, 2010) as well as a volume on the thought of Alain Badiou (with Ernst van den Hemel, 2012). His book on contemporary communisms is forthcoming (2014).Robin Celikates is associate professor of political and social philosophy and vice-director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Kritik als soziale Praxis (Campus, 2009), the co-author of Einführung in die politische Philosophie (Reclam, 2013) and the co-editor of Socialité et reconnaissance (L’Harmattan, 2007), Philosophie der Mo-ral (Suhrkamp, 2009) and of Transformations of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014).Yolande Jansen is a senior researcher at the department of philosophy and the ACGS (Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies) of the University of Amsterdam. She is also a special professor for the Dutch Socrates Foundation, holding the chair of humanism in relation to religion and secularity at the VU University Amsterdam. She is the author of several journal articles and of Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism: French Modernist Legacies (AUP, 2013).

This book engages with one of the most pressing problems facing Europe today. With drownings and deaths reported at the European borders nearly daily, there is a genuine need for better empirical understanding and novel social imaginations to inform political agendas. Understanding Europe as a space of experimentation, this collection succeeds in offering an original perspective on global border practices and their multifaceted contestations. Compulsory reading for researchers, activists, and policy-makers.

• Acknowledgments / Introduction, Yolande Jansen, Robin Celikates, Joost de Bloois / Part I. Conditions for Extremities / 1. Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement, Nicholas De Genova / 2. Deportability and Racial Europeanization: The Impact of Holocaust Memory and Postcoloniality on the Unfreedom of Movement in and to Europe, Yolande Jansen / 3.Illegal Migration in Post-Fordism, Serhat Karakayali / Part II. Varieties of Irregularization / 4. Death in the Meditteranean Sea: The Results of the Three Fields of Action of EU Border Controls, Didier Bigo / 5. The Perpetual Mobile Machine of Forced Mobility: Europe’s Roma and the Institutionalization of Rootlessness, Huub van Baar / 6. EU Border Control: Violence, Capture and Apparatus, Julien Jeandesboz / 7. Mediating the Med.: Surveillance and Counter Surveillance at the Southern Borders of Europe, Huub Dijstelbloem / Part III. Practices of Resistance / 8. The Proliferation of Borders and the Right to Escape, S