(Im)moral Borders in Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID3948685
AuthorsNora El Qadim (0000-0001-9692-8820, Institut Convergences Migrations, University Paris 8-CRESPPA-Labtop, corresponding author), Beste Işleyen (0000-0001-5634-4214, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Leonie Ansems De Vries (0000-0002-9856-209X, The King's College), Signe Sofie Hansen (independent scholar), Sibel Karadağ (0000-0003-1965-5675, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey), Debbie Lisle (0000-0003-3413-5109, Queen's University Belfast), Damien Simonneau (0000-0002-4419-9600, Institut Convergences Migrations, University Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Year2021
Volume26
Issue5
Pages1608-1638
Publication date2021-10-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2020.1747902
OpenAlexW3016863585
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited64

This Forum aims to push existing debates in critical border and migration studies over the featuring of morals, ethics and rights in everyday practices relating to the governance of the mobility of non-citizen populations. Its contributors steer away from the actual evaluation or advocacy of the good/just/ethical, focusing instead on the sociological examination of morals and ethics in practice, i.e. how actors understand morally and ethically the border and migration policies they implement or resist. A proliferating interest in the discursive and non-discursive materialisation of moral and ethical elements in asylum and migration policies has examined the intertwinement of care and control logics underlying the management of refugee camps, borders and borderzones, and hotspots alongside the deployment of search-and-rescue operations. Nevertheless, recent research has shown the need to unpack narratives and actions displaying values and symbols that are not necessarily encompassed within this intertwinement of compassion and repression. We argue that there is a need to pay more attention to the diversity, plurality and the operation of morality, ethics and rights in settings and geographies, and of including a diversity of actors both across and beyond EUrope

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