Ellebrecht, Sabrina,

Mediated Bordering : Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border / Sabrina Ellebrecht. - Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2020] ©2020 - 1 online resource (320 p.) - Edition Politik ; 77 .

Frontmatter -- Table of content -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. European Spaces – Schengen Borders? -- 3. Thinking and Researching Political Borders -- Introduction -- 4. “EUROSUR on the Screen” -- 5. EUROSUR on Paper – in the Official Journal of the EU -- 6. EUROSUR: IT’s Mediation -- Introduction -- 7. Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration -- 8. Seaborne Migration: Europe’s Boat-Migrants and their Refugee Vessels -- 9. Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies -- 10. The Emergence of Viapolitics -- Bibliography

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The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat catalyze and craft a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of 'viapolitics'.


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9783839447536

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Political science.
Border Surveillance and Control.
EU Border and Immigration Policies.
Europe.
European Politics.
Fleeing.
Mediterranean Sea.
Migration Policy.
Migration.
Political Science.
Refugee Boat.
Refugee Studies.
Refugees.
Sailing Tall Ship.
Schengen Process.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.