The border as a space of contention

The spatial strategies of protest against border controls in Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID7724907
AuthorsP Monforte (0000-0003-4664-8067, University of Leicester, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume20
Issue3-4
Pages411-426
Publication date2016-05-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2015.1075471
OpenAlexW1956390774
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited56

This article analyses the spatial dimension of social movements mobilising against border controls. Focusing on the case of the protests against European border controls, this paper shows that new spatial strategies of protest have emerged since the beginning of the 2000s. Movements construct collective actions that aim to identify border controls and occupy specific border sites. These new strategies are related to a transformation of the material and symbolic dimensions of border controls in the last decades. As they have become more diffuse and organised through a selective power, social movements strategically locate their protest in order to document the existence and nature of border controls. In doing so, they disrupt the exclusionary logic of citizenship

Citizenship · Economic geography · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance

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