Since the early 2000s, Europe has externalised its management of migration beyond its borders, Africa being a prime destination. This article proposes a two-fold frontier heuristic to study the spatial and temporal un/making of Euro-African borders. Building on Frederick Turner’s (1920) classic model, externalisation can be analysed as a frontier of control advancing into Africa, albeit not in a linear and irreversible manner. Igor Kopytoff’s (1987) notion of the internal or interstitial frontier, on the other hand, contributes to going beyond Eurocentric and state-centric perspectives on externalisation. External borders can be analysed as emerging at the intersection between different regimes and temporalities of migration in Africa. I will illustrate this dynamic through the example of the repatriation of transit migrants in the Gambia, whose European Union (EU)-sponsored governance both blurs the boundaries of sovereignty and depends on migration being managed at the community and family levels.
Frontiers of externalisation : borders and temporality in the Euro-African zone / Paolo Gaibazzi. - In: PAIDEUMA. - ISSN 0078-7809. - STAMPA. - 66:(2020), pp. 219-233.
Frontiers of externalisation : borders and temporality in the Euro-African zone
Paolo Gaibazzi
2020
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Since the early 2000s, Europe has externalised its management of migration beyond its borders, Africa being a prime destination. This article proposes a two-fold frontier heuristic to study the spatial and temporal un/making of Euro-African borders. Building on Frederick Turner’s (1920) classic model, externalisation can be analysed as a frontier of control advancing into Africa, albeit not in a linear and irreversible manner. Igor Kopytoff’s (1987) notion of the internal or interstitial frontier, on the other hand, contributes to going beyond Eurocentric and state-centric perspectives on externalisation. External borders can be analysed as emerging at the intersection between different regimes and temporalities of migration in Africa. I will illustrate this dynamic through the example of the repatriation of transit migrants in the Gambia, whose European Union (EU)-sponsored governance both blurs the boundaries of sovereignty and depends on migration being managed at the community and family levels.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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