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 mediate 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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 April 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837647532
Format: Paperback
Sabrina Ellebrecht (Dr. phil.), born in 1980, is senior researcher in sociology at the Centre for Security and Society at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where she leads the Mercator Foundation research group »The Police in an Open Society«. Her research interests lie in the fields of political sociology, critical border and security studies, and police research.
Frontmatter 1
Table of content 5
Foreword 7
1. Introduction 9
2. European Spaces - Schengen Borders? 23
3. Thinking and Researching Political Borders 63
Introduction 81
4. "EUROSUR on the Screen" 85
5. EUROSUR on Paper - in the Official Journal of the EU 127
6. EUROSUR: IT's Mediation 183
Introduction 191
7. Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration 193
8. Seaborne Migration: Europe's Boat-Migrants and their Refugee Vessels 211
9. Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat-Migrants in EU Border Policies 257
10. The Emergence of Viapolitics 283
Bibliography 291
