Journal
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Volume 80, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102184
Keywords
Migration management; Border externalization; Politics of scale; Migratory routes; European union; Africa; Critical border studies
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- National Science Foundation [BCS-1023543]
- Faculty Research Grant of UNC-Charlotte
- Juan Marinello Centre for Cultural Research
- IUAES Commission on Global Transformations and Marxian Anthropology in Havana, Cuba
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This paper signals how border externalization can inform geographical debates about scale and in turn, foster research on how scale intersects with recent forms of border and migration control. It interrogates what scales are being produced and struggled over, pointing to the contingency of scalar work in border externalization, specifically through the EU Migration Routes Strategy. Debates on scale and changing borders are worked through to arrive at the notion of itinerant scale, in order to highlight a very distinct spatial imaginary and implementation of border work. Instead of sitting at the edges of nation-states, staying in designated places for long, or pushing through some sort of region imagined as a buffer or frontline, borders are envisioned and designed to be mobile devices and reiterated along shifting migratory mutes. This complex scalar production unfolds through a mix of policies, cartographies, surveillance infrastructures and atypical institutional agreements, reaching and acting simultaneously at local, national and regional levels, aiming at the management and contention of suspicious bodies on the move.
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