The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders
Author: Martina Tazzioli
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Print Length: 184 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Human Geography, Political Science, Sociology, Population, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Europe
Topic: Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Asylum & Refugee System, Mobility & Immobility, Biopolitics, Borders, Exclusion, Immigration Control, Immigration System, Politics & Power, Geopolitics, Security, Technology & Surveillance, Governance, History, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Legality & Illegality; Passport, ID, and Identification; Visibility & Invisibility; Memory, Remembering and Forgetting
The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to?
Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement with the security and humanitarian modes of governing migrants, the book pushes us to rethink notions that are central in current political theory such as “multiplicity” and subjectivity. This is an innovative and sophisticated study; deploying migration as an analytical angle for complicating and reconceptualising the emergence of collective subjects, mechanisms of individualisation, and political invisibility/visibility.
A must-read for students of Migration Studies, Political Geography, Political Theory, International Relations, and Sociology.
Table of Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Migrant Mobs: The (Un)Making of Migrant Multiplicities
2. Migrant Singularities: Between Subjectivation and Desubjugation
3. Digital multiplicities and Singularities: (In)Visibility and Data Circuits
4. “Keeping on the Move Without Letting Pass”: Dispersal and Mobility as Technologies of Government
5. Migrant spatial Disobediences: Collective Subjectivities and the Memory of Struggles
Conclusion
References
Index
Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London (2013), a MA and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pisa. Before joining the University of Bologna, she was Reader in Politics & Technology at Goldsmiths. Her research is situated at the crossroad of Political Geography, critical Migration and Border Studies and Political Philosophy. She is working on three projects. One on memory of border controls and migrants’ struggles; a related project about counter-mapping and legal geographies of border violence on central Mediterranean route; and a research project about social reproduction activities in camps, with a focus on Greece. She is the author of “Border abolitionism: migration containment and the genealogies of struggles” (2023). “The Making of Migration. The biopolitics of mobility at Europe’s borders” (2019), “Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings” (2015) and “Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration” (2016).
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