Border abolitionism as method

Reivew of Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum

Martina Tazzioli ~ RP 2.10 (Summer 2021), pp. 112–114 ~ Review

Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). 304pp., £81.00 hb., £20.27 pb., 978 0 81669 710 6 hb., 978 0 81669 711 3 pb. The implementation of the EU Pact on Migration in September 2020 has marked a further step in the sheer politics […]

Photograph from inside a damp pedestrian tunnel, with green trees and bright light at the end

Migrant multiplicities

Reivew of Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration

Emma Mc Cluskey ~ RP 2.09 (Winter 2020), pp. 111–114 ~ Review

Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (London: Sage, 2019). 184pp., £79.00 hb., £25.99 pb., 978 1 52646 403 3 hb., 978 1 52646 404 0 pb. It has been five years since the peak of what European states labelled a ‘refugee crisis’. The idea that this was an […]

Whose law is it anyway?

Reivew of Nadine El-Enany, (B)ordering Britain

Joel White ~ RP 2.09 (Winter 2020), pp. 104–107 ~ Review

Nadine El-Enany, (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019). 312pp., £20.00 hb., 978 1 52614 542 0 On the 11th August 2020, in the midst of a tabloid maelstrom around people travelling from Calais to Dover in small boats, the UK Home Office released a statement that departed from their usual […]

The politics of counting and the scene of rescue: Border deaths in the Mediterranean

Martina Tazzioli ~ RP 192 (July/Aug 2015), pp. 2–6 ~ Commentary

Border deaths are not a new phenomenon. Since the early 2000s, the Mediterranean Sea has been named a ‘maritime cemetery’ by activists1 and critical migration scholars. However, over the last two years migrant deaths at the borders have gained more and more attention in the media and EU political debate after two deadly shipwrecks near […]

Moving Borders: The Politics of Dirt

Peter Nyers ~ RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) ~ Commentary

Commentary Moving borders The politics of dirt Peter nyers Who can move? Who can speak? Who can act politically? The struggles of refugees and migrants have problematized conventional answers to these questions in a profound manner. Their struggles have demonstrated that, despite the considerable risks and dangers, new political subjects are being formed within securitized […]