Ellebrecht Mediated Bordering

Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4753-6
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Edition Politik

The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites - the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, shaped, produced and eventually stabilized through these two mediators. Eurosur and the Refugee Boat mediate a level of Europeanization which has hitherto - and would otherwise have - been impossible. While Eurosur mobilizes the limits of border policing in various ways, the Refugee Boat functions as the vacillating European Other to legitimize both control and humanitarian interventions. The study shows the specific, if not constitutive, ambivalences of EU border policies, and explores the emergence of viapolitics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellebrecht, Sabrina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Über Autor(innen)

Ellebrecht, Sabrina
Sabrina Ellebrecht (Dr. phil.), born in 1980, is senior researcher in sociology at the Centre for Security and Society at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where she leads the Mercator Foundation research group 'The Police in an Open Society'. Her research interests lie in the fields of political sociology, critical border and security studies, and police research.

Sabrina Ellebrecht, born in 1980, is a researcher at the Centre for Security and Society at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She specializes in the field of border studies, EU migration and border control policies, and critical security studies. In 2013, the sociologist was a visiting scholar at the DFG-Research Training Group "Topology of Technology" at the TU Darmstadt.