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Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places book cover

1st Edition

Embedding Externalisation How Bordering Practices Transform Places

Edited By Sebastian Cobarrubias, Paolo Novak Copyright 2027
164 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an examination of how border control functions activated far from border lines fundamentally reshape the world we live in. Moving beyond the headlines of migration crises, it reveals that border control is no longer just about migration containment. Through compelling case studies from across the globe—from the Mediterranean and North Africa to South America and into the intimate... Read more

Introduction: Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places

Sebastian Cobarrubias and Paolo Novak

 

1. Over Land and Sea: NGOs/CSOs and EU Border Externalisation Along the Central Mediterranean Route

Paolo Cuttitta

 

2. Re-producing the Humanitarian Border

Paolo Novak

 

3. Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador

Soledad Álvarez Velasco

 

4. The Effects of Externalised Border Control Management by Germany on Marriage Migrants from Third Countries

Alena Zelenskaia

 

5. Externalising Migration Controls through Development Programs in Egypt

Gerda Heck and Elena Habersky

 

6. Countering Containment: Chronoscopy and Resistance in an Era of Externalisation

Loren B Landau

Biography

Sebastian Cobarrubias is an ARAID Researcher at the Department of Geography, Universidad de Zaragoza. He is a Section Editor for Oxford Intersections and on the Editorial Board of Political Geography

Paolo Novak is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, at SOAS London. He is the author of Buildings of Refuge (2025)

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