Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

• Main Authors: Lagios, Thanasis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Lekka, Vasia (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Emigration and immigration.; Security, International.; Globalization.; Europe-Politics and government.; Citizenship.; Political Theory.; Migration.; International Security Studies.; European Politics.

This book critically discusses two crises that shape our present: migration crisis and 2007-2008 crisis. The first part raises several questions regarding migration, borders, labour, humanitarianism and biopolitics; the second part focuses on the false dilemma between an interpretation of contempora...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Within the walls
• 2. "Migrants" vis-à-vis "refugees": Towards a "rationalisation" of migration control and management
• 3. Opening and closing borders: Capitalism is speeding up
• 4. Borders' diffusion as a response to the "humanist crisis": Towards a military-humanitarian nexus
• 5. Borders and bodies in twenty-first-century biopolitical societies: The migrant's body as carrier of the border
• 6. Conclusion: Facing a circulus vitiosus?
• 7. Exergum
• 8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse
• 9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities
• 10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?