This open access book offers an account of the very different technologies implicated in border crossing and migration management. Borders have been sites of contestations and struggles over who belongs and who does not, who is and is not allowed to move freely in transnational or national spaces. Embedded as they are in the bordering process, policing and security practices produce the irregularity and illegitimacy of the migrating subject. At the same time, border practices simultaneously imply processes of dissidence and resistance. Border infrastructures and resistance to bordering practices refer to dynamic and complex interactions between migrants and non-human others, technologies at the borderland and elsewhere. Border guards, EU officials, Frontex officers, activists, NGOs and solidarity networks configure both hybrid alliances of humans/nonhumans and new virtual and urban spaces in order to enforce or resist bordering.
Through analyses of empirical cases drawing from the European border regimes the book investigates how technologies employed by states and EU border agencies configure the border regimes; how spaces of migration are configured through uses and re-uses of high-tech technologies; and finally on how the border regimes and ‘the border industrial complex’ are contested reconfigured by the use of ICT by migrants and solidarity networks.
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 Velux Foundations
Introduction 1. The Migration Mobile: Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Vasilis Galis Part 1: Configuration of the Border Regime(s) 2. The Embodied Identity of Migration and Border Biometrics by Brigitta Kuster and Vassilis S. Tsianos 3. Vulnerability and Flexible Population Filtering: Lessons Learnt, from the EC Hotspot to the Pandemic by Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis 4. Reconfiguring Removal: Commercial Purpose Creeps in Biometric EU Databases by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen and Oliver Joel Halpern 5. Liminality, Asylum, and Arbitrariness in the Greek State’s Implementation of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement by Vasilis Vlassis Part 2: Configuration of Migration Space 6. Asylum Seekers Experiencing Forced Immobility as Offline and Online Actors by Claudia Lintner 7. Navigating the Resources of the Migrant Digital Space by Luca Rossi 8. ‘Fast trusting’ – Practices of Trust During Irregularized Journeys to and Through Europe by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup and Marie Sandberg Part 3: Reconfiguring the Border Regime(s) and Emancipation of Space 9. Counter-Narrating the Mediterranean Border Regime and Reclaiming Rights: Refugee Voices in Libya and Across the Sea by Sara Creta and Chiara Denaro 10. Autonomy of Migration in the Age of Deportation – Migrants’ Practices Against Deportation by Leandros Fischer and Martin Bak Jørgensen 11. Migration and Counter-Information Practices: Enhancing Mobility While Subverting the Mainstream Media by Vasiliki Makrygianni and Vasilis Galis Part 4: Epilogue 12. Afterword: Counter-Mapping the Technology-Hype in Migration Studies by Martina Tazzioli About the Authors
Vasilis Galis is an associate professor in the Technologies in Practice Group at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Martin Bak Jørgensen is a professor affiliated with the Democracy, Migration and Society (DEMOS) research group at Aalborg University, Denmark. Marie Sandberg is an associate professor of ethnology, and director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reviews for The Migration Mobile: Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance, and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants
The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting the changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration. --Marie Gillespie, The Open University, UK The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the resulting tensions. --Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the contributors chart the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - through both practices of control and enabling forms of resistance and subversion. --Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh
