Ruben Andersson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Andersson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Development Oxford University Oxford UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything
Wreckonomics examines the Cold War, the “war on terror,” the “fight against illegal migration,” and the “war on drugs and crime” through political systems analysis. The book argues that these various “wars” and “fights” have frequently been damaging and even counterproductive—not least because they have been extensively “gamed” by those with varied purposes in mind. It also considers the costs of “laissez faire” and “lockdown” during the COVID-19…
Border walls, irregular migration and the co‐optation of the border security playbook
Underlying data is not made available
Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: Ethnographic Notes on a Counterproductive Industry
Despite Europe's mass investments in advanced border controls, people keep arriving along the continent's shores under desperate circumstances. European attempts to ‘secure’ or ‘protect’ the borders have quite clearly failed, as politicians themselves increasingly recognise – yet more of the same response is again rolled out in response to the escalating ‘refugee crisis’. Amid the deadlock, this article argues that we need to grasp the mechanics …
Here Be Dragons: Mapping an Ethnography of Global Danger
For a brief post-Cold War moment, it seemed as if global division would yield to connectivity as marginal regions would be rewired into the world economy. Instead, the post-9/11 years have seen the spread of ever-larger "no-go zones," seen as constituting a danger especially to Western states and citizens. Contact points are reduced as aid workers withdraw, military operations are conducted from above, and few visitors, reporters, or researchers …
La olla a presión: Cómo la seguridad fronteriza sigue aumentando el caos
Este artículo plantea los problemas y contradicciones del llamado «efecto globo» en los procesos migratorios y la necesidad de partir de una visión global e interconectadas de los flujos poblacionales a través de las fronteras para la elaboración de políticas migratorias justas y efectivas. La revisión de las «crisis» en las fronteras del Mediterráneo, desde las primeras «pateras» que cruzaban Gibraltar hasta la presente «crisis de refugiados», e…
Hunter and Prey: Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands
In the past decade, the European Union and its member states have invested heavily in a far-reaching, diffuse, and technologized border regime targeting the elusive figure of the clandestine or “illegal” African migrant. Taking the mismatch between these large investments and the statistically small number of overland irregular migrants as its starting point, this article explores the embodied effects of illegality engendered in the policing of t…
Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality
The Western world's borders increasingly seem like a battleground where a new kind of “threat” is repelled—the so‐called “illegal migrant.” At Europe's southern frontiers, sea patrols, advanced surveillance machinery, and fencing keep migrants out, much like at the U.S., Israeli, and Australian borders. Such investments have created a dense web of controls that displaces the border both inward and outward into the borderlands beyond it. Building …
Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted journalist and anthropologist, travels with a group of African migrants from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants themselves, Anderson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how migration meets and interacts with its target--the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flo…
Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality
The Western world's borders increasingly seem like a battleground where a new kind of “threat” is repelled—the so‐called “illegal migrant.” At Europe's southern frontiers, sea patrols, advanced surveillance machinery, and fencing keep migrants out, much like at the U.S., Israeli, and Australian borders. Such investments have created a dense web of controls that displaces the border both inward and outward into the borderlands beyond it. Building …
Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: Ethnographic Notes on a Counterproductive Industry
Despite Europe's mass investments in advanced border controls, people keep arriving along the continent's shores under desperate circumstances. European attempts to ‘secure’ or ‘protect’ the borders have quite clearly failed, as politicians themselves increasingly recognise – yet more of the same response is again rolled out in response to the escalating ‘refugee crisis’. Amid the deadlock, this article argues that we need to grasp the mechanics …
Here Be Dragons: Mapping an Ethnography of Global Danger
For a brief post-Cold War moment, it seemed as if global division would yield to connectivity as marginal regions would be rewired into the world economy. Instead, the post-9/11 years have seen the spread of ever-larger "no-go zones," seen as constituting a danger especially to Western states and citizens. Contact points are reduced as aid workers withdraw, military operations are conducted from above, and few visitors, reporters, or researchers …
Hunter and Prey: Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands
In the past decade, the European Union and its member states have invested heavily in a far-reaching, diffuse, and technologized border regime targeting the elusive figure of the clandestine or “illegal” African migrant. Taking the mismatch between these large investments and the statistically small number of overland irregular migrants as its starting point, this article explores the embodied effects of illegality engendered in the policing of t…
Border walls, irregular migration and the co‐optation of the border security playbook
Underlying data is not made available
Hunter and Prey: Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands
In the past decade, the European Union and its member states have invested heavily in a far-reaching, diffuse, and technologized border regime targeting the elusive figure of the clandestine or “illegal” African migrant. Taking the mismatch between these large investments and the statistically small number of overland irregular migrants as its starting point, this article explores the embodied effects of illegality engendered in the policing of t…
Time and the Migrant Other: European Border Controls and the Temporal Economics of Illegality
The Western world's borders increasingly seem like a battleground where a new kind of “threat” is repelled—the so‐called “illegal migrant.” At Europe's southern frontiers, sea patrols, advanced surveillance machinery, and fencing keep migrants out, much like at the U.S., Israeli, and Australian borders. Such investments have created a dense web of controls that displaces the border both inward and outward into the borderlands beyond it. Building …
Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted journalist and anthropologist, travels with a group of African migrants from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants themselves, Anderson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how migration meets and interacts with its target--the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flo…
La olla a presión: Cómo la seguridad fronteriza sigue aumentando el caos
Este artículo plantea los problemas y contradicciones del llamado «efecto globo» en los procesos migratorios y la necesidad de partir de una visión global e interconectadas de los flujos poblacionales a través de las fronteras para la elaboración de políticas migratorias justas y efectivas. La revisión de las «crisis» en las fronteras del Mediterráneo, desde las primeras «pateras» que cruzaban Gibraltar hasta la presente «crisis de refugiados», e…
Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: Ethnographic Notes on a Counterproductive Industry
Despite Europe's mass investments in advanced border controls, people keep arriving along the continent's shores under desperate circumstances. European attempts to ‘secure’ or ‘protect’ the borders have quite clearly failed, as politicians themselves increasingly recognise – yet more of the same response is again rolled out in response to the escalating ‘refugee crisis’. Amid the deadlock, this article argues that we need to grasp the mechanics …
Here Be Dragons: Mapping an Ethnography of Global Danger
For a brief post-Cold War moment, it seemed as if global division would yield to connectivity as marginal regions would be rewired into the world economy. Instead, the post-9/11 years have seen the spread of ever-larger "no-go zones," seen as constituting a danger especially to Western states and citizens. Contact points are reduced as aid workers withdraw, military operations are conducted from above, and few visitors, reporters, or researchers …
Border walls, irregular migration and the co‐optation of the border security playbook
Underlying data is not made available
Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything
Wreckonomics examines the Cold War, the “war on terror,” the “fight against illegal migration,” and the “war on drugs and crime” through political systems analysis. The book argues that these various “wars” and “fights” have frequently been damaging and even counterproductive—not least because they have been extensively “gamed” by those with varied purposes in mind. It also considers the costs of “laissez faire” and “lockdown” during the COVID-19…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)