The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe - Detention, Deportation, Drowning

Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses of “bordering,” “illegality,” and “irregularization.” Secondly, it focuses on the varieties of irregularization and on the diversity of the fields, techniques and effects involved in this variegation. Thirdly, the book examines examples of resistance that migrants and migratory cultures have developed in order to deal with the predicaments they face. The book uses the European Union as its case study, exploring practices and discourses of bordering, border control, and migration regulation. But the significance of this field extends well beyond the European context as the monitoring of Europe’s borders increasingly takes place on a global scale and reflects an internationally increasing trend.

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, Sandro Mezzadra 9. The Rights of the Irregularized: Constitutional Struggles at the Southern Border of the EU, Sonja Buckel 10. Undocumented Migrant Activism and the Political Economy of Visibility: We Are Here!, Juan M. Amaya-Castro 11. Refocalizing Irregular Migration: New Perspectives on the Global Mobility Regime in Contemporary Visual Culture, Esther Peeren Conclusion, Joost de Bloois, Robin Celikates, Yolande Jansen Bibliography Index Notes on Contributors