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The anti-policy of European anti-smuggling as a site of contestation in the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’
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Perkowski, Nina and Squire, Vicki (2019) The anti-policy of European anti-smuggling as a site of contestation in the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45 (12). 2167-2184 . doi:10.1080/1369183X.2018.1468315 ISSN 1369-183X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1468315
Abstract
This article analyses the European anti-smuggling agenda as an anti-policy that derives legitimacy from fighting ‘bad things’, in terms that mask political disagreement. By juxtaposing the agenda to the experiences and understandings of those whom such measures affect most directly – people migrating without authorisation to the EU – it uncovers the productivity of anti-smuggling and the political contestations surrounding it. Based on a qualitative analysis of 257 interviews carried out with 271 people who travelled – or sought to travel – across the Mediterranean Sea by boat using smuggling networks, the article highlights the complicity of governing authorities and officials with smuggling networks and practices, as well as the diversity and ambivalences of relationships between smugglers and the smuggled. Going further, the article points to the specific ways in which anti-smuggling is contested by those on the move, which expose a central political disagreement over the legitimacy of mobility across borders.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Smuggling -- European Union countries, Emigration and immigration -- European Union countries | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1369-183X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 9 October 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Page Range: | 2167-2184 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1468315 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 30/05/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1468315” | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 April 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 October 2018 | ||||||||
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