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Europe's Border Crisis - Biopolitical Security and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Europe's Border Crisis - Biopolitical Security and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Europe's Border Crisis investigates dynamics in EU border security
and migration management and advances a path-breaking framework for
thought, judgment, and action in this context. It argues that a
crisis point has emerged whereby irregular migrants are treated as
both a security threat to the EU and as a life that is threatened
and in need of saving. This leads to paradoxical situations such
that humanitarian policies and practices often expose irregular
migrants to dehumanizing and lethal border security mechanisms. The
dominant way of understanding these dynamics, one that blames a gap
between policy and practice, fails to address the deeper political
issues at stake and ends up perpetuating the terms of the crisis.
Drawing on conceptual resources in biopolitical theory,
particularly the work of Roberto Esposito, the book offers an
alternative diagnosis of the problem in order to move beyond the
present impasse. It argues that both negative and positive
dimensions of EU border security are symptomatic of tensions within
biopolitical techniques of government. While bordering practices
are designed to play a defensive role they contain the potential
for excessive security mechanisms that threaten the very values and
lives they purport to protect. Each chapter draws on a different
biopolitical key to both interrogate diverse technologies of power
at a range of border sites and explore the insights and limits of
the biopolitical paradigm. Must border security always result in
dehumanization and death? Is a more affirmative approach to border
politics possible? Europe's Border Crisis sets out a new horizon
for addressing these and related questions.
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