Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity
Cambridge University Press, 9/17/2020
EAN 9781108835336, ISBN10: 1108835333
Hardcover, 280 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, this book instead suggests that the 'migration crisis' reflects a more fundamental breakdown of a modern European tradition of humanism. Squire provides a detailed and broad-ranging analysis of the EU's response to the 'crisis', highlighting the centrality of practices of governing migration through death and precarity. Furthermore, she unpacks a series of pro-migration activist interventions that emerge from the lived experiences of those regularly confronting the consequences of the EU's response. By showing how these advance alternative horizons of solidarity and hope, Squire draws attention to a renewed humanism that is grounded both in a deepened respect for the lives and dignity of people on the move, and an appreciation of longer histories of violence and dispossession. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers working on migration in political science, international relations, European studies, law and sociology.
Part I. The Production of Death and Vulnerability
1. Crisis politics
The production of death and vulnerability
2. Biophysical violence and ultra-precarity
The normalisation of death and vulnerability
3. Human dignity
The pervasiveness of death and vulnerability
Part II. The Production of Solidarity and Hope
4. Corridoi Umanitari
Dignity in motion and a politics of welcome
5. Sea-Watch
Dignity in Danger and a Politics of Witness
6. Grave dressing
Dignity in death and a politics of responsibility
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