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Border harms and everyday violence : a prison island in Europe
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The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee 'crisis'. Drawing on her experiences as an activist in Lesvos refugee camps, Iliadou considers the impacts of EU ...
The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee 'crisis'. Drawing on her experiences as an activist in Lesvos refugee camps, Iliadou considers the impacts of EU deterrence policies and highlights the global responsibility for safeguarding refugees' human rights.
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- Creator
- Evgenia Iliadou
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, 2023
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 9781529212778, 1529212774, 9781529212785, 1529212782, 9781529212761
- OCLC
- on1395180664
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Front Cover -- Half-title -- Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Aims of this book -- Painful injustices: understanding violence, social harm and social suffering -- A heartfelt ethnography of borders -- The metaphor of 'prison island' -- Positionality, power, ethics -- The organization of the book -- 1 The Politics of Deterrence and Closed Borders -- The externalization of EU borders -- The harms of externalization
- Violence en route -- Financial debt -- Labour debt -- Sexual debt -- Other coerced choices -- The internalization of EU borders -- The hotspot approach -- The closure of the Balkan route -- The EU-Turkey statement -- The geographical restriction regime -- Conclusion -- 2 Intergenerational Harms: Border Memories and Genealogies of Harm -- Regimes of border violence and control -- Genealogies of immigration detention centres -- Special sites of residency for foreigners -- First reception centres or screening centres -- Conclusion
- 3 Quarantine Continuum: Medicalization of Borders and the Securitization of Migration and Health -- The enemy within -- The enemy at the borders -- Conclusion -- 4 Mundane Surrealism: Bureaucratic Deterrence, Violence and Suffering -- First stage: screening and identification procedures -- Second stage: asylum procedures -- Restricted access to asylum procedures -- Restricted access to information -- Restricted access to legal aid -- The fast-track and inadmissibility procedure -- Administrative vulnerability -- Third stage: Emergency Relocation Scheme -- Fourth stage: Family Reunification Scheme
- Fifth stage: Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration -- Juma -- Sixth stage: coerced deportations -- Seventh stage: irregular travel -- Conclusion -- 5 Necroharms: Obscene and Grotesque Violence -- The politics of abandonment -- Necroharms -- The Moria camp as a graveyard -- Moria as a site of violence -- Conclusion -- 6 Thanatoharms: Governing Migration through Violence and Death -- Frozen death -- Deterring-killing: the thanatopolitical border regime -- Thanatoharms -- Violence after death -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index