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Containment beyond detention: The hotspot system and disrupted migration movements across Europe
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Glenda Garelli
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Start page: 026377581875933
Swansea University Author:
Martina Tazzioli
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0263775818759335
Abstract
This article focuses on the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected after landing in Italy and in Greece, drawing attention to strategies of containment that are put into place for disciplining mobility and that are not narrowed to detention infrastructures. The paper suggests...
| Published in: | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space |
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| ISSN: | 0263-7758 1472-3433 |
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2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa39530 |
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This article focuses on the ways in which migrants are controlled, contained and selected after landing in Italy and in Greece, drawing attention to strategies of containment that are put into place for disciplining mobility and that are not narrowed to detention infrastructures. The paper suggests that the notion of containment remains under-theorised in geography and in migration literature, and rethinks it beyond spatial confinement and detention. It traces a genealogy of the use of the term “hotspot” in policy documents suggesting that the multiplication of hotspots-like designated spaces is related to a reconceptualisation of the border as a critical site requiring prompt enforcement intervention. The article proceeds by analysing the mechanisms of partitioning, identification and preventive illegalisation that are at stake in the hotspots of Lampedusa and Lesvos. Hotspots are not analysed here as as sites of detention per se: rather, the essay turns the attention to the channels of forced mobility that are connected to the Hotspot System, focusing on the forced internal transfers of migrants from the Northern Italian cities of Ventimiglia and Como to the hotspot of Taranto, located in Southern Italy.In the final section, the article takes into account the channels of forced mobility in the light of the fight against “secondary movements” that is at the core of the current EU’s political agenda, suggesting that further academic research could engage in a genealogy of practices of migration containment. |
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| Keywords: |
migration; containment; hotspot; Mediterranean; logistics. |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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026377581875933 |