5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa
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Eva Magdalena Stambøl
Abstract
The chapter investigates how the historical intertwinement between colonialism, corporate interests and policing is mirrored in the current ways that Europe attempts to control migration from West Africa. It first considers the role of public-private relationships and surveillance during and in the aftermath of French colonization. Building on this, it goes on to explore the case of Civipol, an agency specializing in the capacity-building of African countries’ internal security co-owned by the French state and major European security companies, which has gained a prominent role as a main implementing partner of EU funds to control migration. Looking especially at Civipol’s engagement in the building of national civil registries, it is argued that colonial continuities can be traced in present mobility policing, and that corporate interests co-shape the securitization of Europe’s relations with Africa.
Abstract
The chapter investigates how the historical intertwinement between colonialism, corporate interests and policing is mirrored in the current ways that Europe attempts to control migration from West Africa. It first considers the role of public-private relationships and surveillance during and in the aftermath of French colonization. Building on this, it goes on to explore the case of Civipol, an agency specializing in the capacity-building of African countries’ internal security co-owned by the French state and major European security companies, which has gained a prominent role as a main implementing partner of EU funds to control migration. Looking especially at Civipol’s engagement in the building of national civil registries, it is argued that colonial continuities can be traced in present mobility policing, and that corporate interests co-shape the securitization of Europe’s relations with Africa.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
