11 “We Want to Hear from You”: Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. The Borders of “Europe” and the European Question 1
5. 1 “The Secret Is to Look Good on Paper”: Appropriating Mobility within and against a Machine of Illegalization 37
6. 2 Rescued and Caught: The Humanitarian-Security Nexus at Europe’s Frontiers 64
7. 3 Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the EU’s Maritime Frontier 95
8. 4 The Mediterranean Question: Europe and Its Predicament in the Southern Peripheries 120
9. 5 Europe Confronted by Its Expelled Migrants: The Politics of Expelled Migrants’ Associations in Africa 141
10. 6 Choucha beyond the Camp: Challenging the Border of Migration Studies 165
11. 7 “Europe” from “Here”: Syrian Migrants/Refugees in Istanbul and Imagined Migrations into and within “Europe” 185
12. 8 Excessive Migration, Excessive Governance: Border Entanglements in Greek EU-rope 210
13. 9 Dubliners: Unthinking Displacement, Illegality, and Refugeeness within Europe’s Geographies of Asylum 233
14. 10 The “Gran Ghettò”: Migrant Labor and Militant Research in Southern Italy 255
15. 11 “We Want to Hear from You”: Reporting as Bordering in the Political Space of Europe 283
16. References 299
17. Contributors 341
18. Index 345