After Border Externalization

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Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

Hassan Ould Moctar (University of London, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
30 April 2026

Development studies; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Migration, immigration & emigration

In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union’s tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South. Rather than approaching this “border externalization” in analytical isolation, he details how it relates to history and social relations in the West African state of Mauritania. The political concern with policing “irregular migration” emerged relatively recently in Mauritania as a result of EU policy cooperation. But as Ould Moctar shows, it intervenes within a deeper historic arc of colonial bordering and racialized population management, while also upholding capitalism’s tendency to cast people out of its development. To trace how this plays out in practice, he offers fine-grained ethnographic accounts of the conditions of migrant workers who have come up against the violence of externalisation at various points in their trajectories. By tying these narratives to equally formative experiences of urban informality and rural dispossession, he demonstrates how the EU border regime intervenes within a colonially inherited framework of racialized territorial belonging and capitalism’s wasteful dynamics in the Global South.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

By: Hassan Ould Moctar (University of London UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781350376823
ISBN 10: 1350376825
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Introduction Part 1 Chapter 2: The Sum of its Parts? Part 2 Chapter 3: The Proximity of the Past in Mauritania Chapter 4: EU Border Externalization in Mauritania Part 3 Chapter 5: A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 6: ‘You can’t be a Migrant at Home’ Chapter 7: Bordering Postcolonial Capitalism Chapter 8: Conclusion Bibliography Index

Hassan Ould Moctar is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, UK.

Reviews for After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

""After Externalization is an incisive study of migration in Mauritania's borderlands. The book is much more than a study of the effects of European border policies in Africa. Hassan Ould Moctar has a more ambitious goal, to painstakingly investigate the links between migrant illegality, colonial legacies, global capitalism, and security technologies. Along the way, he shows us the twilight of a Eurocentric world order. This book is a rich contribution to our understanding of border politics in the Sahel and beyond."" --Philippe M. Frowd, author of Security at the Borders (2018) ""Drawing upon extended ethnographic fieldwork, this is a deeply perceptive and rich account of the impact of EU border externalisation on Mauritania's society, politics, and economy. A powerful corrective to the Eurocentric ways in which borders and migration are so often spoken about today."" --Adam Hanieh, University of Exeter, UK ""In this important new addition to the literature on border externalisation, Hassan Ould Moctar offers us a tour de force of how these intricate and intimate multi-scalar practices play out in the context of Mauritania, firmly contextualising externalisation efforts within wider processes of colonialism, racial capitalism, and importantly, opportunities for resistance."" --Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam and author of Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives ""Coloniality, racialised exploitation, illegality have become crucial concepts in our understanding of the so-called migration crisis. After Border Externalization takes us onto a journey where these concepts are brought to life, incarnated and situated. Its rich ethnography provides nuance and celebrates ambiguity, elevating Hassan Ould Moctar's sophisticated analytical critique. After Border Externalization charts new and exciting investigative trajectories in the field of Critical Borders and Migration Studies."" --Dr Paolo Novak, Co-Director, Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS, UK