Lorena Gazzotti
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 358121 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lorena Gazzotti |
| PRENOMES | Lorena |
| SOBRENOME | Gazzotti |
| ASSINATURA | GAZZOTTI L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3353-6018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border
How does an island become a carceral space? How does islandness shift between openness and foreclosure? Border geographers have engaged carcerality as a relational and expansive quality. Islands figure prominently in these discussions. Although scholars have denaturalised islands as carceral spaces, the unstable character of islandness remains undertheorised in border studies and carceral geography. Building on qualitative research conducted in t…
Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border
How is the white researcher perceived by the border apparatus? What does this interaction say about the border itself? Ethnographic research has framed such questions as a debate on ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ in fieldwork. This is problematic, as it assumes that a researcher can really be ‘external’ to the social worlds they investigate, as if the field site existed in isolation from transnational processes of racialised extraction. This paper ch…
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands
This article investigates the social life of excision at the Southern Spanish border. Scholars have documented how excision expands the border project, and how it uses the law to make it more defensible as a practice. Less attention has been paid to how excision is challenged by activist networks, and how the law is used as an instrument to un-make borders. I expand literature on the complex relation between the law and geography in bordermaking …
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance
This special issue argues for a more complex understanding of migration policy ‘beyond Fortress Europe’. It advocates a twofold approach that (1) historicizes the domestic contexts of migration governance across the Middle East, North, West and Central Africa; and (2) unpacks the conflicts, internal contradictions and coalitions within the policy communities in these four regions. In this introduction we outline the empirical and conceptual contr…
Terrain of Contestation
Theorists of border externalization have portrayed aid in border control cooperation as a bargaining chip that the European Union uses to “buy” the cooperation of countries of “origin” and “transit.” More recent scholarship, instead, has depicted aid as a rent that Southern actors try to extract from Northern donors by capitalizing on the presence of foreign, “undesirable” populations within their own borders. Both explanations overlook the manif…
Immigration Nation
Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the US, with donors, International Organisations and NGOs becoming prominent actors. In this book, Lorena Gazzotti shows that migration control is not only exercised through fen…
Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state”
Countering violent extremism (CVE) policies infiltrate every corner of public life, travelling across the Global North and South. However, scholars have under-analysed the perspective of those charged with CVE’s implementation, and have treated CVE in a spatial binary, implying that its operationalisations in the Global North and South are conceptually distinct. This article presents a comparative political ethnography of CVE projects framed as c…
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Dispersal and dispossession as bordering
Dispersal has acquired an increasingly central role within state-led border control strategies in Europe and North Africa. Scholars have, however, tended to apprehend dispersal in its geographical dimension, failing to interrogate bordering beyond spatial distancing from the territorial edges of the state. Furthermore, dispersal strategies in non-European countries are underexplored. We start filling these gaps by examining how dispersal operates…
Migration policy and international human rights frameworks in Morocco
In 2013, Morocco announced the adoption of a new, 'humane' migration policy. The implementation of the reform, however, has been characterised by an apparent contradiction: while Morocco has leveraged the humanitarian and international orientation of the policy as a foreign policy tool, this new political framework has not so far been translated into law and has been accompanied by persisting violations of migrants' rights, especially in border a…
(Un)making illegality
What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a constructed category, produced by immigration policies and laws aimed at 'illegalizing' established mobility flows. 'Illegality' operates as an exclusionary category not only because it is constructed by law, but also because it is activated by racialized forms of prejud…
Deaths, Borders, and the Exception
This essay questions the rise of border humanitarianism in the North-Eastern Moroccan borderlands. The increasing presence of humanitarian organizations in contexts marked by border violence has raised the attention of a number of critical migration scholars. Observers, however, have failed to problematize the presence of humanitarian activities, traditionally connected to emergency contexts, in sites integrated in the "routinary" regulation of m…
From irregular migration to radicalisation? Fragile borders, securitised development and the government of Moroccan youth
Building on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017, this paper analyses projects seeking to disrupt irregular emigration in Morocco. Literature has analysed how these programmes transfer repressive migration control norms from European states to origin countries and the problematic representations of migration that they convey. However, scholars have overlooked the trajectory of this migration control tool and have analysed it in isolation from oth…
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance
This special issue argues for a more complex understanding of migration policy ‘beyond Fortress Europe’. It advocates a twofold approach that (1) historicizes the domestic contexts of migration governance across the Middle East, North, West and Central Africa; and (2) unpacks the conflicts, internal contradictions and coalitions within the policy communities in these four regions. In this introduction we outline the empirical and conceptual contr…
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Dispersal and dispossession as bordering
Dispersal has acquired an increasingly central role within state-led border control strategies in Europe and North Africa. Scholars have, however, tended to apprehend dispersal in its geographical dimension, failing to interrogate bordering beyond spatial distancing from the territorial edges of the state. Furthermore, dispersal strategies in non-European countries are underexplored. We start filling these gaps by examining how dispersal operates…
(Un)making illegality
What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a constructed category, produced by immigration policies and laws aimed at 'illegalizing' established mobility flows. 'Illegality' operates as an exclusionary category not only because it is constructed by law, but also because it is activated by racialized forms of prejud…
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands
This article investigates the social life of excision at the Southern Spanish border. Scholars have documented how excision expands the border project, and how it uses the law to make it more defensible as a practice. Less attention has been paid to how excision is challenged by activist networks, and how the law is used as an instrument to un-make borders. I expand literature on the complex relation between the law and geography in bordermaking …
Migration policy and international human rights frameworks in Morocco
In 2013, Morocco announced the adoption of a new, 'humane' migration policy. The implementation of the reform, however, has been characterised by an apparent contradiction: while Morocco has leveraged the humanitarian and international orientation of the policy as a foreign policy tool, this new political framework has not so far been translated into law and has been accompanied by persisting violations of migrants' rights, especially in border a…
Deaths, Borders, and the Exception
This essay questions the rise of border humanitarianism in the North-Eastern Moroccan borderlands. The increasing presence of humanitarian organizations in contexts marked by border violence has raised the attention of a number of critical migration scholars. Observers, however, have failed to problematize the presence of humanitarian activities, traditionally connected to emergency contexts, in sites integrated in the "routinary" regulation of m…
Terrain of Contestation
Theorists of border externalization have portrayed aid in border control cooperation as a bargaining chip that the European Union uses to “buy” the cooperation of countries of “origin” and “transit.” More recent scholarship, instead, has depicted aid as a rent that Southern actors try to extract from Northern donors by capitalizing on the presence of foreign, “undesirable” populations within their own borders. Both explanations overlook the manif…
From irregular migration to radicalisation? Fragile borders, securitised development and the government of Moroccan youth
Building on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017, this paper analyses projects seeking to disrupt irregular emigration in Morocco. Literature has analysed how these programmes transfer repressive migration control norms from European states to origin countries and the problematic representations of migration that they convey. However, scholars have overlooked the trajectory of this migration control tool and have analysed it in isolation from oth…
Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border
How does an island become a carceral space? How does islandness shift between openness and foreclosure? Border geographers have engaged carcerality as a relational and expansive quality. Islands figure prominently in these discussions. Although scholars have denaturalised islands as carceral spaces, the unstable character of islandness remains undertheorised in border studies and carceral geography. Building on qualitative research conducted in t…
Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state”
Countering violent extremism (CVE) policies infiltrate every corner of public life, travelling across the Global North and South. However, scholars have under-analysed the perspective of those charged with CVE’s implementation, and have treated CVE in a spatial binary, implying that its operationalisations in the Global North and South are conceptually distinct. This article presents a comparative political ethnography of CVE projects framed as c…
From irregular migration to radicalisation? Fragile borders, securitised development and the government of Moroccan youth
Building on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017, this paper analyses projects seeking to disrupt irregular emigration in Morocco. Literature has analysed how these programmes transfer repressive migration control norms from European states to origin countries and the problematic representations of migration that they convey. However, scholars have overlooked the trajectory of this migration control tool and have analysed it in isolation from oth…
Deaths, Borders, and the Exception
This essay questions the rise of border humanitarianism in the North-Eastern Moroccan borderlands. The increasing presence of humanitarian organizations in contexts marked by border violence has raised the attention of a number of critical migration scholars. Observers, however, have failed to problematize the presence of humanitarian activities, traditionally connected to emergency contexts, in sites integrated in the "routinary" regulation of m…
Immigration Nation
Over the past forty years, countries in the Global North have increasingly restricted their migration policies to reduce the arrival of migrants. As part of this, development aid has become a central tool in the migration control strategy pursued by European countries and the US, with donors, International Organisations and NGOs becoming prominent actors. In this book, Lorena Gazzotti shows that migration control is not only exercised through fen…
Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state”
Countering violent extremism (CVE) policies infiltrate every corner of public life, travelling across the Global North and South. However, scholars have under-analysed the perspective of those charged with CVE’s implementation, and have treated CVE in a spatial binary, implying that its operationalisations in the Global North and South are conceptually distinct. This article presents a comparative political ethnography of CVE projects framed as c…
Telling histories of the present
In September 2013, King Mohammed VI announced sweeping reforms to Morocco's migration policy that promised to break with decades of repressive border control, respect human rights, and open the path to integration for migrants across the country. In this introductory article, we outline the insights that postcolonial studies offers to understanding the 'radically new' migration policy in Morocco, and what such insights might add to the study of (…
Dispersal and dispossession as bordering
Dispersal has acquired an increasingly central role within state-led border control strategies in Europe and North Africa. Scholars have, however, tended to apprehend dispersal in its geographical dimension, failing to interrogate bordering beyond spatial distancing from the territorial edges of the state. Furthermore, dispersal strategies in non-European countries are underexplored. We start filling these gaps by examining how dispersal operates…
Migration policy and international human rights frameworks in Morocco
In 2013, Morocco announced the adoption of a new, 'humane' migration policy. The implementation of the reform, however, has been characterised by an apparent contradiction: while Morocco has leveraged the humanitarian and international orientation of the policy as a foreign policy tool, this new political framework has not so far been translated into law and has been accompanied by persisting violations of migrants' rights, especially in border a…
(Un)making illegality
What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a constructed category, produced by immigration policies and laws aimed at 'illegalizing' established mobility flows. 'Illegality' operates as an exclusionary category not only because it is constructed by law, but also because it is activated by racialized forms of prejud…
Embracing complexity in ‘Southern’ migration governance
This special issue argues for a more complex understanding of migration policy ‘beyond Fortress Europe’. It advocates a twofold approach that (1) historicizes the domestic contexts of migration governance across the Middle East, North, West and Central Africa; and (2) unpacks the conflicts, internal contradictions and coalitions within the policy communities in these four regions. In this introduction we outline the empirical and conceptual contr…
Terrain of Contestation
Theorists of border externalization have portrayed aid in border control cooperation as a bargaining chip that the European Union uses to “buy” the cooperation of countries of “origin” and “transit.” More recent scholarship, instead, has depicted aid as a rent that Southern actors try to extract from Northern donors by capitalizing on the presence of foreign, “undesirable” populations within their own borders. Both explanations overlook the manif…
Looking into the border. Whiteness, (un)desirable encounters and research containment at the Spanish–Moroccan border
How is the white researcher perceived by the border apparatus? What does this interaction say about the border itself? Ethnographic research has framed such questions as a debate on ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ in fieldwork. This is problematic, as it assumes that a researcher can really be ‘external’ to the social worlds they investigate, as if the field site existed in isolation from transnational processes of racialised extraction. This paper ch…
As if there was a border. Bordering through excision in Melilla and the Canary Islands
This article investigates the social life of excision at the Southern Spanish border. Scholars have documented how excision expands the border project, and how it uses the law to make it more defensible as a practice. Less attention has been paid to how excision is challenged by activist networks, and how the law is used as an instrument to un-make borders. I expand literature on the complex relation between the law and geography in bordermaking …
Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border
How does an island become a carceral space? How does islandness shift between openness and foreclosure? Border geographers have engaged carcerality as a relational and expansive quality. Islands figure prominently in these discussions. Although scholars have denaturalised islands as carceral spaces, the unstable character of islandness remains undertheorised in border studies and carceral geography. Building on qualitative research conducted in t…
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