The Migration Apparatus
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The Migration Apparatus

Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Migration Apparatus

Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union

About this book

Every year, millions of people from around the world grapple with the European Union's emerging migration management apparatus. Through border controls, biometric information technology, and circular migration programs, this amorphous system combines a whirlwind of disparate policies. The Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration.

Working in the crosshairs of debates surrounding national security and labor, officials have limited individual influence, few ties to each other, and no serious contact with the people whose movements they regulate. As Feldman reveals, this complex construction creates a world of indirect human relations that enables the violence of social indifference as much as the targeted brutality of collective hatred. Employing an innovative "nonlocal" ethnographic methodology, Feldman illuminates the danger of allowing indifference to govern how we regulate population—and people's lives—in the world today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. 1 Unconnected in the Acephalous World of Migration Policymaking
  10. 2 Right Versus Right: How Neoliberals and Neo-nationalists Dominate Migration Policy in Europe
  11. 3 Making Things Simple: Forms of Knowledge and Policy Coherence in the “Area of Justice, Freedom and Security”
  12. 4 Border Control: The New Meaning of Containment
  13. 5 Biometrics: Where Isn’t the Security Threat?
  14. 6 The Right Solution, or, the Fantasy of Circular Migration
  15. 7 When There Is No There There: Nonlocal Ethnography in a World of Apparatuses
  16. Epilogue: The Comparative Advantages of the Academic and the Policymaker
  17. References
  18. Index