Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco

Author:   Lorena Gazzotti (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781316519707


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Immigration Nation: Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco


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Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the US, with donors, International Organisations and NGOs becoming prominent actors. In this book, Lorena Gazzotti shows that migration control is not only exercised through fences and deportation. Building on extensive research in Morocco, Gazzotti shows that aid marks the rise of a substantially different mode of migration containment, one where power works beyond fast violence, and its disciplinary potential is augmented precisely by its elusiveness. Where existing studies on border externalisation have essentialised donors, International Organisations and NGOs, with countries of 'origin' and 'transit' as compliant subcontractors, and border control as a neat form of intervention, this nuanced study unsettles such assumptions, to show that bordering happens in everyday, mundane fashions, far away from the spectacle of border violence. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Author:   Lorena Gazzotti (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781316519707


ISBN 10:   1316519708
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bordering the Western Mediterranean; 3. How Morocco became an 'immigration nation'; 4. Fund, divide and rule; 5. Excluding through care; 6. Making migrants work; 7. Return, Inc.; 8. The left hand of the border; 9. Conclusion.

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'Lorena Gazzotti's book offers a thorough analysis of the quickly evolving migration, aid. and development-humanitarian industry in Morocco. Building on a vast literature and extensive fieldwork, it also leads us towards the less explored aspects of Morocco's migration policies.' Nora El Qadim, University of Paris 8 'Gazzotti's ethnography reveals the surprising ways that humanitarian agencies ostensibly serving migrants in Morocco knowingly or unwittingly support the interests of the EU in keeping migrants out. Her cutting analysis lays bare the messy relationship between care and control, and how power is quietly deployed behind militarised border spectacles.' David Scott FitzGerald, University of California, San Diego 'By bringing insights from critical theory, migration studies, and humanitarian assistance literature, Lorena Gazzotti presents a novel account of the complexities of aid industry, and a detailed analysis of its facilitating role in the intricacies of migration control in Morocco.' Asli Ilgit, Cukurova University 'Immigration Nation brings everyday life into the analysis of the profound transformations that characterise migration policies and practice in Morocco. A crucial read in understanding the interplay of migration control, diplomacy, international organisations, aid, and the ways in which they affect migrants' lives on the ground.' Federica Infantino, European University Institute


Author Information

Lorena Gazzotti is the Alice Tong Sze Research fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and CRASSH, University of Cambridge where her work explores the intersection between security, containment, and precarity in North Africa and the UK. She has published in the Sociological Review, the Journal of North African Studies, the Guardian, and Times Higher Education.

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