Fortress Europe’s far-flung borderlands

Illegality’ and the ‘deportation regime’ in France’s Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7921024
AutoresCatherine Benoît (0000-0003-3005-7449, Connecticut College, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume15
Fascículo2
Páginas220-240
Data de publicação2020-03-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMobilities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17450101.2019.1678909
OpenAlexW2990665885
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas59

This article argues that the French overseas territories of the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, which are also European ‘outermost regions,’ make up the first borders of ‘Fortress Europe,’ geographically, historically and legislatively. Since the 1980s, a set of laws, described as ‘laws of exception,’ place the majority of the foreign residents in a state of ‘illegality.’ These overseas territories are in the vanguard of a French ‘regime of deportation’ that targets foreign nationals, indigenous populations and former colonial subjects. They are places of experimentation for legal exceptions, which are then implemented in metropolitan France. This paper will analyze how the reinforcement of borders contradicts the popular and scholarly representation of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean as sites of mobility

Ancient history · Colonialism · Deportation · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Immigration · Indigenous · Political science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia