Mediated bordering : Eurosur, the refugee boat, and the construction of an external EU border

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat catalyze and craft a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European __Other__ to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of 'viapolitics'. The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat mediate a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of viapolitics. Border Studies,EU Border and Immigration Policies,Border Surveillance and Control,Schengen Process,Mediterranean Sea,Sailing Tall Ship,Refugees,Refugee Boat,Europe,Fleeing,Migration,European Politics,Migration Policy,Refugee Studies,Political Science Cover Table of content Foreword 1 Introduction Mediated Bordering. Thinking and Researching Political Borders 2 European Spaces – Schengen Borders? 3 Thinking and Researching Political Borders EUROSUR – The European Border Surveillance System Part II: EUROSUR – The European BorderSurveillance System 4 “EUROSUR on the Screen” 5 EUROSUR on Paper – in the Official Journal of the EU 6 EUROSUR: IT’s Mediation The Refugee Boat – Vehicle, Moving Target, Integrating Figure of EU Bordering Part III: The Refugee Boat – Vehicle, Moving Target, Integrating Figure of EU Bordering 7 Site Inspection: On Boats and Ships, their Appropriation for Flight and Migration 8 Seaborne Migration: Europe’s Boat Migrants and their Refugee Vessels 9 Seaborne Bordering: Legal Negotiations on Boats and Boat Migrants in EU Border Policies 10 The Emergence of Viapolitics Bibliography "The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites--the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat catalyze and craft a level of Europeanization that has hitherto--and would otherwise have been--impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of "viapolitics."--Amazon.com

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat mediate a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of viapolitics.