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Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Start page: 239965441983906

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/2399654419839065

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This article focuses on the use of mobility as a technology ofgovernment for regaining control over migrants. The article investigateshow migration movements across Europe are managed by state authorities, with particularattention to illegalized migrants who fall under the Dublin Regulation. Buildin...

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Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
ISSN: 2399-6544 2399-6552
Published: 2019
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description This article focuses on the use of mobility as a technology ofgovernment for regaining control over migrants. The article investigateshow migration movements across Europe are managed by state authorities, with particularattention to illegalized migrants who fall under the Dublin Regulation. Building on ethnographicresearch conducted between 2015 and 2017, the article focuses on the Italian–Frenchborder and on the Swiss–Italian border illustrating how migrants' presence is managed here by constantly moving migrants away from the frontier. The article moves on by exploringhow migrants are governed in France, being transferred from Calais to hosting centresacross the country. It highlights how migrants’ movements are controlled, disrupted and divertednot (only) through detention and immobility but by generating effects of containment keepingmigrants on the move and forcing them to engage in convoluted geography. It shows that one ofthe main strategies for governing migration through mobility consists in the politics of migrantdispersal. This latter is enacted by scattering migrants across spaces and dividing emergent migrant collective formations.
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