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Containment beyond detention: The hotspot system and disrupted migration movements across Europe

Martina Tazzioli Orcid Logo, Glenda Garelli

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Start page: 026377581875933

Swansea University Author: Martina Tazzioli Orcid Logo

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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...

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Published in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
ISSN: 0263-7758 1472-3433
Published: 2018
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