Migrants, Borders and the European Question : The Calais Jungle Hardback
by Zaki Nahaboo, Nathan Kerrigan
Part of the Mobility & Politics series
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This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question.
The issue of who and what counts as European was articulated through this makeshift camp.
The book argues that the Jungle acquired meaning as a localised struggle to define territory, borders, rights and refugees in Europe.
Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad is used as a framing device for analysis.
Discourses of tropicality are shown to produce the Jungle in terms of a postcolonial space of exception.
This representational space fused bodies and environment in racialised ways.
Attention is then drawn to assemblages that gave rise to political subjectivity, which partially elided a Eurocentric prism of rights.
Here, the book explores how a ‘right to the jungle’ was generated via relations between refugees, aid workers and material objects—constituting the Jungle as a space of representation.
Finally, intimate life in, and beyond, the Jungle is examined as a spatial practice that contests the EU border regime.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:97 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 97 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/08/2021
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- ISBN:9783030759216
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:97 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 97 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/08/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030759216
