Alpine Border Conflicts: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

Author:   Cecilia Vergnano ,  Maurice Stierl ,  Silvia Aru
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781666922134


Pages:   172
Publication Date:   15 August 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Alpine Border Conflicts: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders


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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”.

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Author:   Cecilia Vergnano ,  Maurice Stierl ,  Silvia Aru
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781666922134


ISBN 10:   1666922137
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   15 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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This deeply researched and beautifully written book turns the spotlight onto the violence faced by racialised life seekers as they encounter and traverse Alpine borderscapes and asks the important question of what these experiences tell us about and mean for European society. -- Polly Pallister-Wilkins, author of Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives, University of Amsterdam


This deeply researched and beautifully written book turns the spotlight onto the violence faced by racialised life seekers as they encounter and traverse Alpine borderscapes and asks the important question of what these experiences tell us about and mean for European society. --Polly Pallister-Wilkins, author of Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives, University of Amsterdam


Author Information

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).

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