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Squire, Vicki, Perkowski, Nina, Stevens, Dallal and Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2021) Reclaiming migration. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526144836
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Abstract
Reclaiming Migration critically assesses the EU’s policy agenda on migration by directly engaging the voices of Europe’s so-called ‘migrant crisis’ that remain largely unheard: those of people on the move. It undertakes an extensive analysis of a counter-archive of migratory testimonies co-produced with people on the move across the Mediterranean during 2015 and 2016, to document the ways in which EU policy developments both produce and perpetuate the precarity of lived experiences on the part of those migrating under perilous conditions. The book draws attention to the flawed assumptions embedded within the deterrence paradigm and policies of anti-smuggling, within protection mechanisms and asylum procedures that rely on a linear account of migratory journeys, and within the EU’s self-identification as a place of human rights and humanitarianism. Yet, it also goes further to show how the experiences of precarity to which such policies give rise are inseparable from claims and demands for justice that are advanced by people on the move, who collectively provide a damning critique of the EU policy agenda. Reclaiming Migration develops a distinctive ‘anti-crisis’ approach to the analysis of migratory politics and highlights the ways in which migration itself can be understood as an anti-colonial movement. Written collectively by a team of esteemed scholars from across multiple disciplines, the book serves as an important contribution to debates within migration, border and refugee studies, as well as more widely to debates about postcolonialism and the politics of knowledge production.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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Publisher: | Manchester University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Manchester | ||||
ISBN: | 9781526144836 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2021 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 224 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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