The 'Channel Crossings' and the borders of Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID2357628
AuthorsJoseph Maggs
Year2020
Volume61
Issue3
Pages78-86
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRace & Class (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-3968 • E-ISSN: 1741-3125
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0306396819892467
OpenAlexW2989653491
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

Since November 2018, a small but increased number of migrants have risked their lives attempting to cross the waters of the English Channel from northern France to reach Britain. Throughout and alongside the final protracted phase of the Brexit process, governing politicians, backed by an uncritical media, have framed these crossings as a threat to British border sovereignty that can only be repelled by ramping up border security. This article argues that the construction of the Channel Crossings as a 'Border Spectacle' is an ideological operation that deflects attention away from the UK-French border-zone, which constitutes an extended transnational hostile environment that is, in large part, responsible for producing the conditions of the 'new migrant crisis' at Britain's southeastern land-sea border

Border crossing · Border Security · Brexit · Business · Channel (broadcasting · Economics · Economy · European union · Ideology · International trade · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spectacle · Telecommunications · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance

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