Tag Archives: EU border regime
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Temporal zones of ill-being
Elena Fontanari
‘Freedom!’, exclaims Ben during an interview conducted in Berlin in April 2019, ‘I desire only freedom: I want to choose where to live, which kind of job I can do. I want to move out from Berlin, visit my friends, my family. You know that feeling of being imprisoned? I feel exactly like this,Read more
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia
Marta Stojić Mitrović
The COVID-19 pandemic was wind at the back for the transformation of European nation-states into laboratories for amplification of surveillance and movement control. In reaction to the pandemic, authorities produced a whole set of social, spatial and temporal borders for governing movement and interactions. The social categories aimed at differentiating ‘the dangerous’ (persons, places, times)Read more
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: The cruel optimism of migration and non-spectacular borders
Polina Manolova
If ‘hopeful dreams’ are the ‘stuff’ of which migration is made, as Samuli Schielke (2020: xiii) has recently remarked, then we need to ask what are the imaginary constructs that transpire in subjective aspirations towards the ‘good life’ and what is the price that one incurs for pursuing these through migration. As imaginaries, contrary toRead more
ATC: On Solidarity: The promise of solidarity
Gerhild Perl
Solidarity, one might say, emerges through empathizing with the fate of others. Thereby, empathy is the rather affectively intuited than deliberately chosen response to an ethical obligation imposed upon us by a known or unknown Other. I thus regard empathy as a fundamental precondition for finding common ground with other people. But how do solidarity-basedRead more