TY  - GEN
AU  - Ellebrecht,Sabrina
TI  - Mediated Bordering : Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
SN  - /doi.org/10.14361/9783839447536
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Central government policies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Immigration
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44065/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44065/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36664
ER  -