Alpine Border Conflicts
Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2213-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2213-4 (ISBN)
This book focuses on the effects of the EU and intra-EU border regime not only on migrants but also on receiving societies, in terms of social and political polarization.
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. By contextualizing the governance of borders and migration in a broader framework, which includes the governance of EU states’ debt, the book focuses on the effects of border regimes not only on migrants but also on EU societies. 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. In particular, the book aims to challenge the idea of a supposed lack of morality of all non-white migration facilitators (derogatorily called “passeurs”), in contrast to white facilitators’ ethical and political commitments; and the supposed incompatibility between white workers supporting reactionary populism and the New Left’s “Welcome Culture”.
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. By contextualizing the governance of borders and migration in a broader framework, which includes the governance of EU states’ debt, the book focuses on the effects of border regimes not only on migrants but also on EU societies. 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. In particular, the book aims to challenge the idea of a supposed lack of morality of all non-white migration facilitators (derogatorily called “passeurs”), in contrast to white facilitators’ ethical and political commitments; and the supposed incompatibility between white workers supporting reactionary populism and the New Left’s “Welcome Culture”.
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).
Table of Contents
Foreword by Maurice Stierl
Foreword by Silvia Aru
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Crisis
Chapter 2: A Step Back: Breaches
Chapter 3: Redressive Actions
Chapter 4: The Racialized Divide Among Border-crossing Facilitators
Chapter 5: The Breach within the Social Basis of the Left
Conclusion
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change |
| Vorwort | Maurice Stierl, Silvia Aru |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-2213-7 / 1666922137 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-2213-4 / 9781666922134 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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