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Author Spathopoulou, Aila, author

Title Bordering and governmentality around the Greek Islands / Aila Spathopoulou
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Mobility & politics
Mobility & politics.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. From the scene of arrival onto the road: The (mixed) flow -- 3. From the Olive Grove onto the ferry: The refugee volunteer -- 4. From the relocation to the vulnerability route: The deserving refugee -- 5. From self- detention to self-deportation: The underserving economic migrant -- 6. From humanitarian-bordering work to incomplete translation: The cultural mediator -- 7. From to integration to closed hotspots: The migrant -- 8. Conclusion
Summary This book focuses on processes of bordering and governmentality around the Greek border islands from the declaration of a refugee crisis in the summer of 2015 up until the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The chapters trace the implementation of the EU migration hotspot approach across space and time, from the maritime Aegean border to the islands (Lesvos and Samos) and from the islands to the Greek mainland. They do so through the lenses of peoples refusal to succumb to categories that get reified as identities through the hotspot approach, such as that of the deserving refugee, the undeserving economic migrant, the translator, the volunteer, the tourist and the researcher. This book explores how migration management in Greece from 2015-2020, along with the reshaping of space and time, reconfigured peoples relationships with one another and ultimately with ones self. Aila Spathopoulou is Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. She is also co-coordinator of the Research Area Mobility: Migration and Borders at the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research (Athens). She holds a PhD in Geography from King's College London and has published her research in peer reviewed journals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Immigrants -- Government policy -- Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
Immigrants -- Government policy -- Greece -- Samos (Municipality)
Border security -- Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
Border security -- Greece -- Samos (Municipality)
Border security
Immigrants -- Government policy
Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
Greece -- Samos (Municipality)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031085895
3031085892