The political economy of bordering and the reproduction of borders in the case of Frontex

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12979201
AutoresDianne Winkler (0000-0002-4970-3001, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen16
Número2
Páginas162-174
Fecha de publicación2022-11-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/19427786221135577
OpenAlexW4308440221
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

The EU-border agency Frontex is one of the main actors involved in the bordering of the EU. Its practice reaches from the deployment of border police and equipment to the production of knowledge about the border and migration. Departing from a critical analysis of the documentaries "Frontex – Einsatz gegen Flüchtlinge – Festung Europa" (2013) and “Die Frontex-Recherche: Eine EU-Agentur und der Umgang mit Menschenrechtsverletzungen” (2019) on Frontex, this article examines the mutual interrelations of discursive and material bordering. Based on a combined reading of Laclau's work on difference and Mezzadra and Neilsons concept of borders as tools of structuring social reality through difference, the reproduction of the border is discussed. The border becomes the place where the border is enacted and reproduced on a material and discursive level. This practice of bordering is rooted in a reproduction of capital and of racist imaginations of refugees

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