140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Borders are both a door and a bridge. Because they are operating at a critical juncture between security expectations and intense cross-border exchanges, they appear to be Janus-faced. To some, they are demarcating lines that call for extensive protection and a regime of strict closure. To others, they are a gateway to transnational opportunities and their opening should be carefully but... Read more

Introduction: Securitized Borderlands

Martin Deleixhe, Magdalena Dembińska and Julien Danero Iglesias

1. Biopolitical Sovereignty and Borderlands

Martin Deleixhe

2. The "Boomerang Effect" of Kin-State Activism: Cross-border Ties and the Securitization of Kin Minorities

Alexandra Liebich

3. Values and Power Conflicts in Framing Borders and Borderlands: The 2013 Reform of EU Schengen Governance

Ramona Coman

4. Conflicting Imaginaries of the Border: The Construction of African Asylum Seekers in the Israeli Political Discourse

Sharon Weinblum

5. The European Dispositif of Border Control in Malta. Migrants’ Experiences of a Securitized Borderland

Léa Lemaire

6. Behind Closed Doors: Discourses and Strategies in the European Securitized Borderlands in Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine

Julien Danero Iglesias

7. Securitizing a European Borderland: The Bordering Effects of Memory Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sarah Sajn

Biography

Martin Deleixhe is Senior Researcher in Political Theory at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

Magdalena Dembińska is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université de Montréal, QC, Canada. Her research focuses on majority-minority relations and on nation- and state-building in Central Europe and Eurasia.

Julien Danero Iglesias is an independent researcher, with interest in nationalism and identity in Eastern Europe.